|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
|
Buy Now
Gothic Utterance - Voice, Speech and Death in the American Gothic (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,947
Discovery Miles 19 470
|
|
|
Gothic Utterance - Voice, Speech and Death in the American Gothic (Hardcover)
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
The Gothic has always been interested in strange utterances and
unsettling voices: from half-heard ghostly murmurings and the
admonitions of the dead, to the terrible cries of the monstrous
nonhuman. Gothic Utterance offers the first book-length study of
the role such voices play in the Gothic tradition, exploring their
prominence and importance in the American literature produced
between the Revolutionary War and the close of the nineteenth
century. This book argues that the American Gothic foregrounds the
overpowering affect and distressing significations of the voices of
the dead, dying, abjected, marginalised or nonhuman, in order to
undertake a sustained interrogation of what it means to be and
speak as an American in this period. The American Gothic imagines
new forms of relation between speaking subjects, positing more
inclusive and expansive forms of community. Gothic Utterance also
emphasises the ethical demands attending our encounters with Gothic
voices: the Gothic suggests that how we choose to hear and respond
to these voices says much about our relationship with the world
around us, its inhabitants - dead or otherwise - and the limits of
our own subjectivity and empathy.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
