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The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that reinstates the importance of viscerality to the gothic mode. It argues that contemporary discourses surrounding our bodies are crucial to our understanding of the social messages in fictional mutilation and of the pleasures we may derive from it. This book considers a number of literary and cinematic mo

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Author

Reyes, Xavier Aldana

Publisher

Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781783160945

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Performing Arts, Horror, Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25