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Buch 7 von 10: International Gothic Series
 
9781526126436: Nordic Gothic: . (International Gothic)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1526126435 ISBN 13: 9781526126436
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It creates an understanding of this under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries, their welfare systems, identities and ideologies. Nordic Gothic examines how figures from Nordic folklore function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes and Nordic settings are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism. The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and- undergraduate students in various fields within the Humanities.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Maria Holmgren Troy is Professor of English at Karlstad University Johan Höglund is Professor of English at Linnaeus University Yvonne Leffler is Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Gothenburg Sofia Wijkmark is Reader in Comparative Literature at Karlstad University

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Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV series, and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives.

Nordic Gothic creates an understanding of a ubiquitous but hitherto under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the Gothic narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries and their welfare systems, and how central these anxieties are for the understanding of identities and ideologies in the Nordic region. It examines how figures from Nordic folklore and mythology function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes, and also how universal Gothic figures such as vampires and witches are used in the Nordic context. The Nordic settings, and especially the Nordic wilderness, are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism and subcategories such as Gothic crime, Gothic humour, troll Gothic and geriatric Gothic are defined and discussed. Furthermore, the phenomenon of transcultural adaptation is investigated, using the cases of Lars von Trier’s Riget and John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Låt den rätte komma in, two seminal works of contemporary Nordic Gothic.

The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and undergraduate students of Gothic in fields such as Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Film Studies and Scandinavian Studies.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1526126435
ISBN 13 
9781526126436
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
224
Herausgeber
Troy Maria Holmgren, Hõglund Johan, Leffler Yvonne
Kontakt zum Hersteller
preigu GmbH & Co. KG
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