House of Horrors: Familial Intimacies in Contemporary American Horror Fiction: Horror Studies
Autor Agnieszka Kotwasinskaen Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 sep 2023
This is a study of tumultuous transformations of kinship and intimate relationships in American horror fiction over the last three decades. Twelve contemporary novels are grouped into four familiar thematic clusters—haunted houses, monsters, vampires, and hauntings—but it is primarily social scripts and concerns linked to intimacy and family life that structure the volume.
Preț: 433.90 lei
Preț vechi: 510.47 lei
-15% Nou
Puncte Express: 651
Preț estimativ în valută:
83.05€ • 86.56$ • 69.13£
83.05€ • 86.56$ • 69.13£
Carte indisponibilă temporar
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Se trimite...
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781837720125
ISBN-10: 1837720126
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: No
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: University of Wales Press
Colecția University of Wales Press
Seria Horror Studies
ISBN-10: 1837720126
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: No
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: University of Wales Press
Colecția University of Wales Press
Seria Horror Studies
Notă biografică
Agnieszka Kotwasińska is assistant professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Defining Horror
Horror and the Gothic
Women Writers in Horror Fiction and Horror Studies
Defining Intimacy
Overview of Chapters
Chapter 1. Uncanny in the House of Fear
Introduction
Uncanny Houses
Void Dreams in Dead in the Water
Unhomely Funhole in The Cipher
The Queer (Uncanny) Desire in Drawing Blood
Conclusions
Chapter 2. Grotesque Monsters and Hybrid Subjectivities
Introduction
Grotesque Bodies
Hybrid Lesbian Bodies in The Drowning Girl
Male Grotesque in Sineater
Monstrous Girlhood in The Rust Maidens
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Blood(y) Ties in Vampire Fictions
Introduction
Towards Abjection
Gilda’s Sensual Vampires
Escaping the ‘Little Wife’ in Black Ambrosia
Prodigal Children (Not) Coming Home
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Spectral Kinship and Ghostly Selves
Introduction
The Ghostly Other in Horror Fiction
Dangerous Dis/possessions in Come Closer
The ‘Wandering Subject’ in The Between
Familial Disintegration in Within These Walls
Conclusion
Afterword
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Introduction
Defining Horror
Horror and the Gothic
Women Writers in Horror Fiction and Horror Studies
Defining Intimacy
Overview of Chapters
Chapter 1. Uncanny in the House of Fear
Introduction
Uncanny Houses
Void Dreams in Dead in the Water
Unhomely Funhole in The Cipher
The Queer (Uncanny) Desire in Drawing Blood
Conclusions
Chapter 2. Grotesque Monsters and Hybrid Subjectivities
Introduction
Grotesque Bodies
Hybrid Lesbian Bodies in The Drowning Girl
Male Grotesque in Sineater
Monstrous Girlhood in The Rust Maidens
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Blood(y) Ties in Vampire Fictions
Introduction
Towards Abjection
Gilda’s Sensual Vampires
Escaping the ‘Little Wife’ in Black Ambrosia
Prodigal Children (Not) Coming Home
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Spectral Kinship and Ghostly Selves
Introduction
The Ghostly Other in Horror Fiction
Dangerous Dis/possessions in Come Closer
The ‘Wandering Subject’ in The Between
Familial Disintegration in Within These Walls
Conclusion
Afterword
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Recenzii
"Theoretically savvy and demonstrating an impressive command of Gothic Horror, Kotwasińska’s analysis of kinship, intimacy, and corporeality in women’s horror makes clear how ideas of family often act as sources of dread rather than comfort in the work of Kathe Koja, Poppy Z. Brite, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Tananarive Due and others. This is an essential contribution to the study of modern horror."