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Gothic-postmodernism
Voicing the Terrors of Postmodernity
Maria Beville
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2009. II, 217 pp. (Postmodern Studies 43)
ISBN: 978-90-420-2664-3 Paper
ISBN: 978-90-420-2665-0 E-Book
Online info: <http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=PMS+43>
Being the first to outline the literary genre, Gothic-postmodernism,
this book articulates the psychological and philosophical implications
of terror in postmodernist literature, analogous to the terror of the
Gothic novel, uncovering the significance of postmodern recurrences of
the Gothic, and identifying new historical and philosophical aspects
of the genre.
While many critics propose that the Gothic has been exhausted, and
that its significance is depleted by consumer society's obsession with
instantaneous horror, analyses of a number of terror-based
postmodernist novels here suggest that the Gothic is still very much
animated in Gothic-postmodernism. These analyses observe the spectral
characters, doppelgängers, hellish waste lands and the demonised or
possessed that inhabit texts such as Paul Auster's City of Glass,
Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park.
However, it is the deeper issue of the lingering emotion of terror as
it relates to loss of reality and self, and to death, that is central
to the study; a notion of 'terror' formulated from the theories of
continental philosophers and contemporary cultural theorists. With a
firm emphasis on the sublime and the unrepresentable as fundamental to
this experience of terror; vital to the Gothic genre; and central to
the postmodern experience, this study offers an insightful and concise
definition of Gothic-postmodernism. It firmly argues that 'terror'
(with all that it involves) remains a connecting and potent link
between the Gothic and postmodernism: two modes of literature that
together offer a unique voicing of the unspeakable terrors of
postmodernity.
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