Gothic Matters: Introduction

[...]Elbert shows that Fullers journey through the landscape of the Great Lakes is as much epistemological and political as it is physical and emotional. The pervasive sense of precariousness created by the 2008 economic meltdown and the lack of hope for an economically sustainable future under curr...

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Published in:Text matters (Łódź) 2016-11, Vol.6 (6), p.7-14
Main Author: Soltysik Monnet, Agnieszka
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Epistemology
Essays
Studies of Literature
Theory of Literature
Violence
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Summary:[...]Elbert shows that Fullers journey through the landscape of the Great Lakes is as much epistemological and political as it is physical and emotional. The pervasive sense of precariousness created by the 2008 economic meltdown and the lack of hope for an economically sustainable future under current political conditions is gured by Gothic-inected lms like Take Shelter (2011) and Winters Bone (2010), where protagonists struggle to survive economically in an everyday made unfamiliar, unsettling and threatening in the face of metaphorical and real (socio-)economic crisis and disorder. [...]Barry Murnane concludes the volume with an analysis of acontemporary British series In the Flesh (BBC 201415) which imagines aworld in which azombie invasion has been stopped and cured medically by aprivate pharmaceutical company that produces an antidote allowing zombies to function normally and return to their families. [...]three book reviews and two interviews.
ISSN:2083-2931
2084-574X
DOI:10.1515/texmat-2016-0001