Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film (University of Wales Press - Gothic Literary Studies)

by Xavier Aldana Reyes

Gothic Literary Studies

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Body Gothic assesses the role and relevance of corporeal transgression in literature and film of the last three decades, from splatterpunk and body horror to torture porn and surgical horror.

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Xavier Aldana Reyes is Readers in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University and a member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. He has edited Horror: A Literary History for British Library Publishing, along with collections of stories by Algernon Blackwood, William Hope Hodgson and H. P. Lovecraft.

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Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
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809.38729Literature & rhetoricLiterature, rhetoric & criticismHistory, description, critical appraisal of more than two literaturesFictionGenre FictionMystery and Speculative FictionHorror, Crime, Gothic
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PN3435 .R494Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Prose. Prose fictionSpecial kinds of fiction. Fiction genres
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