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Boy Melodrama: Genre Negotiations and Gender-Bending in the Supernatural Series
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)For years Supernatural (CW, 2005–) has gained the status of a cult series as well as one of the most passionate and devoted fandoms that has ever emerged. Even though the main concept of the series indicates that Supernatural ... -
Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Against the backdrops of Terry Gifford’s post-pastoral and Fred Botting’s Gothic understanding of the literary corpse as “negative[ly] sublime,” this essay explores the fictional dead as matter unfettered by genre, ... -
Gothic Matters: Introduction
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Gothic Trouble: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Globalized Order
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The article explores the way American author Cormac McCarthy uses the Gothic genre in his novel The Road as a means to address what has been called “our globalized order,” in particular the way it has turned human beings ... -
Haunting Transcendentalist Landscapes: EcoGothic Politics in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)In this essay, the reminiscences of Margaret Fuller, feminist activist and member of the American Transcendentalist movement, from her journey to the Great Lakes region, entitled Summer on the Lakes (1844), are considered ... -
Here Be Monsters: Imperialism, Knowledge and the Limits of Empire
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)It has become a truism in discussions of Imperialist literature to state that the British empire was, in a very significant way, a textual exercise. Empire was simultaneously created and perpetuated through a proliferation ... -
Images of Trebizond and the Pontos in Contemporary Literature in English with a Gothic Conclusion
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)A Byzantinist specializing in the history of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461), the author presents four books of different genres written in English and devoted to the medieval state on the south coast of the Black Sea. ... -
In the Flesh and the Gothic Pharmacology of Everyday Life; or Into and Out of the Gothic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)One of the key questions facing Gothic Studies today is that of its migration into and out of its once familiar generic or symbolic modes of representation. The BBC series In the Flesh addresses these concerns against the ... -
Intertextual Illuminations: “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Malcolm Lowry’s “Through the Panama”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The article offers a reading of “Through the Panama” by Malcom Lowry in light of an intertext connected with Polish literature. Lowry mentions a short story “The Lighthouse Keeper of Aspinwall” by the Polish writer Henryk ... -
“It’s not just a dream. There is a storm coming!”: Financial Crisis, Masculine Anxieties and Vulnerable Homes in American Film
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Despite the Gothic’s much-discussed resurgence in mainstream American culture, the role the late 2000s financial crisis played in sustaining this renaissance has garnered insufficient critical attention. This article finds ... -
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Guillotine, and Modern Ontological Anxiety
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Lacefield’s interdisciplinary analysis analyzes motifs of decapitation/dismemberment in Frankenstein and then moves into a discussion of the novel’s exploration of the ontological categories specified above. For example, ... -
The Monk by M. G. Lewis: Revolution, Religion and the Female Body
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)This paper reads The Monk by M. G. Lewis in the context of the literary and visual responses to the French Revolution, suggesting that its digestion of the horrors across the Channel is exhibited especially in its depictions ... -
Nick Joaquin’s Cándido’s Apocalypse: Re-imagining the Gothic in a Postcolonial Philippines
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)In this context, this paper explores the idea of the Gothic in Joaquin’s writing and how it relates to Joaquin being the “most original voice in postcolonial Philippine writing.” In 1972, the University of Queensland Press ... -
On (Not) Being Milton: Tony Harrison’s Liminal Voice
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The paper examines the relation between poetic identity, whose ongoing construction remains one of the most persistently reoccurring themes of Harrison’s work, and the liminal position occupied by the speaker of Harrison’s ... -
The Tell-Tale Hand: Gothic Narratives and the Brain
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The opening story in Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson is called simply “Hands.” It is about a teacher’s remarkable hands that sometimes seem to move independently of his will. This essay explores some of the ... -
Timeless Radcliffe: A Review of Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu ŁódzkiegoCambridge UP, 2016-11-23) -
Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess: (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)The paper gives insight into the revaluation of popular Gothic aesthetics in Jim Jarmusch’s 2014 production Only Lovers Left Alive. Drawing on critical theory and the postmodern theoretical framework, the article suggests ... -
Wendigos, Eye Killers, Skinwalkers: The Myth of the American Indian Vampire and American Indian “Vampire” Myths
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-11-23)Drawing on American Indian myths and folklore that previous scholarship has placed into direct relationship to the Anglo-European vampire narrative, and on recent U.S. mainstream commodifications of these myths, my paper ...