Limits of Horror: Technology, Bodies, Gothic
by Fred Botting
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Horror isn't what it used to be. Nor are its Gothic avatars. The meaning of monsters, vampires and ghosts has changed significantly over the last two hundred years, as have the mechanisms (from fiction to fantasmagoria, film and video games) through which they are produced and consumed. Limits of horror, moving from gothic to cybergothic, through technological modernity and across a range of literary, cinematic and popular cultural texts, critically examines these changes and the questions show more they pose for understanding contemporary culture and subjectivity.Re-examining key concepts such as the u show lessTags
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Fred Botting is Professor English Literature and executive member of the London Graduate School at Kingston University, UK. He has written extensively on gothic fictions, and on theory, film and cultural forms. His current research projects include work on fiction and film dealing with figures of horror - zombies in particular - and on spectrality.
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Horror
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- 809.38738 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery and Speculative Fiction
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- PN3435 .B67 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Prose. Prose fiction Special kinds of fiction. Fiction genres
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