Body Gothic
Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film
Author(s) Xavier Aldana Reyes
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Criticism
Series: Gothic Literary Studies
- October 2014 · 272 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9781783160921
- · eBook - pdf - 9781783160938
- · eBook - epub - 9781783160945
About The Book
Contents
Introduction: From Gothic Bodies to Body Gothic
Chapter 1 – Splatterpunk
Chapter 2 – Body Horror
Chapter 3 – The New Avant-Pulp
Chapter 4 – The Slaughterhouse Novel
Chapter 5 – Torture Porn
Chapter 6 – Surgical Horror
Conclusion: The Gothic and the Body
Notes
Works Cited
Filmography
Endorsements
‘Aldana Reyes’ groundbreaking study of a wide range of critically neglected literary and filmic texts from the last thirty years focuses on the significance of the body to the gothic tradition, particularly in its more bloody and gruesome manifestations. It is an utterly essential read for those with an interest in gothic subjectivity, the nature and limits of the corporeal, the transgressive imperative and the affective function of the visceral.’
–Dr Linnie Blake, Director of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies
Contents
Introduction: From Gothic Bodies to Body Gothic Chapter 1 - Splatterpunk Chapter 2 - Body Horror Chapter 3 - The New Avant-Pulp Chapter 4 - The Slaughterhouse Novel Chapter 5 - Torture Porn Chapter 6 - Surgical Horror Conclusion: The Gothic and the Body Notes Works Cited Filmography