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Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales by : Chris Baldick
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales written by Chris Baldick and published by Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales by : Chris Baldick
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales written by Chris Baldick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirty-seven gothic horror tales includes stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, and Isak Dinesen.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales by : Chris Baldick
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales written by Chris Baldick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.
Book Synopsis Late Victorian Gothic Tales by : Roger Luckhurst
Download or read book Late Victorian Gothic Tales written by Roger Luckhurst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'He was a man of fairly firm fibre, but there was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. Coming in such a place and at such an hour, it brought a thousand fantastic possibilities into his head...' The Victorian fin de siècle: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead walked and evil curses, foul murder, doomed inheritance and sexual menace played on the stretched nerves of the new mass readerships. This anthology collects together some of the most famous examples of the Gothic tale in the 1890s, with stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Vernon Lee, Henry James and Arthur Machen, as well as some lesser known yet superbly chilling tales from the era. The introduction explores the many reasons for the Gothic revival, and how it spoke to the anxieties of the moment. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Book Synopsis Gothic Tales by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book Gothic Tales written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together 33 of Arthur Conan Doyle's best Gothic Tales for the first time.
Book Synopsis Daughters of the House by : A. Milbank
Download or read book Daughters of the House written by A. Milbank and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through innovative and controversial readings of Victorian Gothic and 'sensation' fiction, this book interrogates current feminist assumptions about the relation of women to the private sphere, and reveals the unexpectedly radical potential of this association. It is argued that this potential is an intrinsic aspect of the 'female' Gothic tradition traceable back to Ann Radcliffe. A new typology of 'male' and 'female' Gothic is shown to be relevant to contemporary French feminist debates about sexual difference.
Book Synopsis The Gothic Tradition by : David Stevens
Download or read book The Gothic Tradition written by David Stevens and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gothic Tradition is a new title in the Cambridge Contexts in Literature series. It is designed to support the needs of advanced level students of English literature. Each title in the series has the quality, content and level endorsed by the OCR examination board. However, the texts provide the background and focus suitable for any examination board at advanced level. The series explores the contextual study of texts by concentrating on key periods, topics and comparisons in literature. Each book adopts an interactive approach and provides the background for understanding the significance of literary, historical and social contexts. Students are encouraged to investigate different interpretations that may be applied to literary texts by different readers, through a variety of activities and questions, the use of study aids, such as chronologies and glossaries, and the inclusion of anthology sections to exemplify issues." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/2001278650.html.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories by : Patricia Craig
Download or read book The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories written by Patricia Craig and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories by : Douglas Dunn
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Scottish Short Stories written by Douglas Dunn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-09-10 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story.Douglas Dunn's eclectic selection displays the marvellous range of Scottish story-telling, beginning with three early traditional tales, and including a wealth of writers from the last three centuries: amongst them Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, J. M. Barrie, Violet Jacob, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, and younger talents such as Ronald Frame, Janice Galloway, and A. L. Kennedy.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by : Chris Baldick
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms written by Chris Baldick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-03-20 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (formerly the Concise dictionary) provides clear, concise, and often witty definitions of the most troublesome literary terms from abjection to zeugma. It is an essential reference tool for students of literature in any language. It is now available in a new and expanded edition and includes increased coverage of new terms from modern critical and theoretical movements, such as feminism, and schools of American poetry, Spanish verse forms, life writing, and crime fiction. It includes extensive coverage of traditional drama, versification, rhetoric, and literary history, as well as updated and extended advice on recommended further reading and a pronunciation guide to more than 200 terms. New to this edition are recommended entry-level web links updated via the Dictionary of Literary Terms companion website.
Book Synopsis Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade by : Margaret Crosland
Download or read book Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade written by Margaret Crosland and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of de Sade's stories utilizing gothic conventions and questioning sexual and societal mores The notorious author of pornographic novels and a sexual pervert who spent much of his life in prison and whose name was unmentionable in civilized circles, only in recent times has the Marquis come to be seen as misunderstood—essentially a moralist, his exploration of the so-called dark side of the human psyche remains as relevant to our society as it was to his own. This collection will provide an excellent introduction to Sade’s fiction; these accessible stories range from the dramatic novellaEugenie de Franval, in which a father’s criminal passion for his daughter leads to intrigue, abduction, and murder, to comic tales such asThe Husband Who Plays Priest, concerning a lecherous monk who finds an ingenious way to combine clerical duties with secular pleasures. De Sade’s gift as a humorist are much in evidence, as is his particular delight in unusual marital situations—which invariably lead to the most diverting conclusions.
Download or read book Gothic Tales written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '"The curse—the curse!" I looked up in terror. In the great mirror opposite I saw myself, and right behind, another wicked, fearful self' An encounter with the supernatural in an everyday setting accentuates its strangeness; a truth used to eerie effect in Gaskell's Gothic tales. A portrait turned to the wall, a hidden manuscript, a mysterious child that lives on the freezing moors, a doppelganger formed by a woman's bitter curse: all of these things hint at male tyranny and woman as avenging angel—or devil. Gaskell was fascinated by the dualities in women's lives and the way in which fact and fiction merge. 'Disappearances', a mix of gossip, legend and fact, relates stories of mysterious vanishings, 'Lois the Witch', based on an account of the Salem witch hunts, shows how sexual desire and jealousy lead to communal hysteria and persecution, while 'The Grey Woman' explores a common Gothic theme, the way in which the ghosts of the past always return to haunt us. This edition includes an introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and an appendix giving a reader's response to 'Disappearances'.
Book Synopsis The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms by :
Download or read book The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Four Gothic Novels by : Horace Walpole
Download or read book Four Gothic Novels written by Horace Walpole and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 1994-07-07 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothic tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numerous followers. These include William Beckford's Vathek (1786), which alternates grotesque comedy with scenes of exotic magnificence in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to damnation. The Monk (1796), by Matthew Lewis, is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest, set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid. Frankenstein (1818, 1831) is Mary Shelley's disturbing and perennially popular tale of young student who learns the secret of giving life to a creature made from human relics, with horrific consequences. This collection illustrates the range and the attraction of the Gothic novel. Extreme and sensational, each of the four printed here is also a powerful psychological story of isolation and monomania.
Book Synopsis The Gothic Tales of Sheridan Le Fanu by : Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu
Download or read book The Gothic Tales of Sheridan Le Fanu written by Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheridan Le Fanu was lauded by contemporaries such as M. R. James for his innovations in the ghost story and mystery genres, and his mastery of conjuring atmosphere and driving stories to thrilling narrative crescendos. And yet, aside from some regularly anthologized short stories and novellas, much of the writer's fiction remains unknown despite its quality. Aiming to firmly position Sheridan Le Fanu alongside other canonical horror writers published by the British Library, this anthology focuses on some of his lesser-known stories, exploring eight thoroughly Gothic tales of murderous families, dark castles, and ghosts whose business with the living remains unfinished.
Download or read book Horror Stories written by Darryl Jones and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human beings are the only species to have evolved the trait of emotional crying. We weep at tragedies in our lives and in those of others - remarkably even when they are fictional characters in film, opera, music, novels, and theatre. Why have we developed art forms - most powerfully, music - which move us to sadness and tears? This question forms the backdrop to Michael Trimble's discussion of emotional crying, its physiology, and its evolutionary implications. His exploration examines the connections with other distinctively human features: the development of language, self-consciousness, religious practices, and empathy. Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of the brain have uncovered unique human characteristics; mirror neurones, for example, explain why we unconsciously imitate actions and behaviour. Whereas Nietzsche argued that artistic tragedy was born with the ancient Greeks, Trimble places its origins far earlier. His neurophysiological and evolutionary insights shed fascinating light onto this enigmatic part of our humanity.
Book Synopsis The Gothic Sublime by : Vijay Mishra
Download or read book The Gothic Sublime written by Vijay Mishra and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reads the Gothic corpus with a thoroughly postmodern critical apparatus, pointing out that the Gothic Sublime anticipates our own doomed desire to pass beyond the hyperreal. A highly sophisticated theoretical reading of key texts of the Gothic, this book allows the reader to re-live the Gothic, not simply as a nostalgic relic or a pre-romantic aberration, but as a living presence that has strong resonances with the postmodern condition.
