Walking shadows : : reflections on the American fantastic and the American grotesque from Washington Irving to the postmodern era / / by Ib Johansen.
Walking Shadows focuses on the American fantastic and the American grotesque, attempting in this manner for the first time to establish an overview of and a theoretical approach to two literary modes that have often been regarded as essential to an understanding of the American cultural canon. The c...
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Superior document: | Costerus, new series, v. 211 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Rodopi. c2015. |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Costerus New Series
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (512 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Theorizing the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque
- Todorov, Bakhtin, and Other Theorists
- Rip Van Winkle’s Fall into History: Framing Washington Irving’s Tale
- Wrestling with God in the Devil’s Territories: Hawthorne and the Fantastic
- The Crowing of the Cock: Melville’s Fantastic Turn in “Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!”
- Convoluted Spaces: The Carnivalesque-Grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe’s “King Pest”
- The Apocalyptic-Grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”
- In the Empire of Signs: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” and the Pure Fantastic
- Spectres of America: Ghostliness in Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw
- Commemorating the Black and Angry Dead in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
- Modernism and Its Discontents: H.P. Lovecraft’s Poetics of Horror
- On the Byways of Modernism: Nathanael West and Patricia Highsmith
- Inside the American Nightmare: Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho and Its Cultural Context
- Bret Easton Ellis as an Example of Postmodernist Fiction, the Film Medium and Its Side-Effects
- The Incredible Lightness of Being
- Epilogue: Conclusions
- Appendix on Shadows
- Bibliography
- Index.