Hantke / Soltysik Monnet War Gothic in Literature and Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-38323-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 290 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

In the context of the current explosion of interest in Gothic literature and popular culture, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores for the first time the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. Critics have described the global Seven Year’s War as the "crucible" from which the Gothic genre emerged in the eighteenth century. Since then, the Gothic has been a privileged mode for representing violence and extreme emotions and situations. Covering the period from the American Civil War to the War on Terror, this collection examines how the Gothic has provided writers an indispensable toolbox for narrating, critiquing, and representing real and fictional wars. The book also sheds light on the overlap and complicity between Gothic aesthetics and certain aspects of military experience, including the bodily violation and mental dissolution of combat, the dehumanization of "others," psychic numbing, masculinity in crisis, and the subjective experience of trauma and memory. Engaging with popular forms such as young adult literature, gaming, and comic books, as well as literature, film, and visual art, War Gothic provides an important and timely overview of war-themed Gothic art and narrative by respected experts in the field of Gothic Studies. This book makes important contributions to the fields of Gothic Literature, War Literature, Popular Culture, American Studies, and Film, Television & Media.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hantke, Steffen

Soltysik Monnet, Agnieszka

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Steffen Hantke and Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet Part I. Literature 1. ‘The red thirst is on this nation’: Vampiric Hauntings of the American Civil War Leigh M. McLennon 2. Jungles of Screaming Souls: Elements of Gothic in Vietnamese and American Writing on the War in Vietnam John Armstrong 3. Gustav Hasford’s Gothic Poetics of Demystification Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet Part II. Visual Culture 4. Evil Things in Robes of Sorrow: Albert Pinkham Ryder’s War Gothic Jayme Yahr 5. War Gothic and the Monstrous Anthropocene Hans Staats Part III. Cinema 6. Troubled by Memories: The World War II Veteran as a Gothic Figure in William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (1947) Steffen Hantke 7. Snow Nazis Must Die: The Cinematic Nazi as Gothic Villain in Modern Schlock Horror Ben Kooyman 8. ‘Ah, you lose you in there?’: Gothic American Masculinities, Specters of Vietnam and Becoming Monstrous in Southern Comfort Glen Donnar Part IV. Gaming 9. Black Ops Zombies: Mobilizing the Gothic Johan Höglund 10. ‘You are not in control’: Spec Ops: The Line and the Banality of War Steven Holmes 11. Beast of America: Revolution and Monstrosity in BioShock Infinite Gwyneth Peaty Part V. Young Adult Culture 12. The Teen War Gothic Goes Lives Karen Renner 13. Operation Horcrux: Harry Potter’s War as a Post-9/11 Conflict Kylee Hartmann-Warren 14. War-Related Stereotypes as a Source of Gothic Monstrosity in Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Agata Zarzycka

Über Autor(innen)

Steffen Hantke teaches in the American Culture Program at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea.

Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.