Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Body Gothic
Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film
by Xavier Aldana Reyes (Author)
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Since the mainstreaming of horror in the 1970s, journalists have warned against the dangers of increasingly explicit forms of violent entertainment. Xavier Aldana Reyes takes a very different stance in Body Gothic by celebrating the transgressive qualities of visceral texts. He considers relevant popular literary and filmic movements of the past three decades and reads them as updates in a long Gothic tradition that goes back to the eighteenth century. The book contains case studies of key texts in splatterpunk, body horror, the new avant-pulp, the slaughterhouse novel, torture porn and surgical horror.
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- Publisher University of Wales Press
- Publication Date October 2014
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781783160921
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 95 GBP
- Pages272
- Publish StatusPublished
- SeriesGothic Literary Studies
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