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Gothic Pathologies

Name: Gothic Pathologies
Author: David Punter
ISBN: 9780312212605

by David Punter

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This is a wide-ranging book about aspects of the Gothic, from classic texts such as Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights to contemporary fiction by Iain Banks, William Gibson and many others. It approaches the texts through looking at the opposition between the Gothic and the law, suggesting ways in which Gothic at all points produces transgression. It looks at horror fiction by, for example, Stephen King and Robert Bloch, as well as stories from China and Hong Kong, and suggests new ways in which contemporary literary and psychological theory might relate to and address the Gothic.

About the Author, David Punter

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Stirling.

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Drawing on psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and other approaches, Punter (English, U. of Stirling, Scotland) proposes a new theory of the relations between writing and loss. In each chapter he looks at a different corpus of Gothic literature from the 18th century to the present, among them classics such as Frankenstein andWuthering Heights, modern authors including Stephen King and Robert Bloch, and postmodern writing by William Gibson and Don DeLillo. He also compares Chinese fictions that have affinities with the European Gothic tradition. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.