UID:
almahu_9949386242502882
Umfang:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780429560354
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0429560354
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9780429555886
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0429555881
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9780429564826
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0429564821
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9780429265334
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0429265336
Serie:
Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature ; 72
Inhalt:
Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury's Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output. Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually quilted the stories together into a novel, From the Dust Returned (2001), making it a creative project that spanned his adult life. Not only do the stories focus on a single familial unit, engaging with overlapping twentieth-century themes of family, identity and belonging, they were also unique in their time, interrogating post-war American ideologies of domestic unity while reinventing and softening gothic horror for the Baby Boomer generation. Centred around diverse interpretations of the Elliott Family stories, this collection of critical essays recovers the Elliotts for academic purposes by exploring how they form a collective gothic mythos while ranging across distinct themes. Essays included discuss the diverse ways in which the Elliott stories pose questions about difference and Otherness in America; engage with issues of gender, sexuality, and adolescence; and interrogate complex discourses surrounding history, identity, community, and the fantasy of family.
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Positioning From the Dust Returned in the Bradbury Canon -- 2 Spiritual Threads of Memory, Meaning, and Mild Monstrosity: The Evolutionary Wanderings of Ray Bradbury's Elliott Family -- 3 "Homecoming" and the Imaginary Attic -- 4 "I'll Be in Every Living Thing in the World Tonight": Adolescent Femininity and the Gothic Uncanny in Bradbury's "The April Witch."
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5 "Other Ways of Being": Ray Bradbury's "The April Witch" in Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid's "In the Night" and Leonora Carrington's "The Seventh Horse" -- 6 The Other in the Self: A Hermeneutics of Otherness in Ray Bradbury's "The Traveller" -- 7 Dark Ecology in From the Dust Returned -- 8 Remembrance of Death, Family, and Place in Ray Bradbury's "Homecoming" -- 9 Innovating Nightmares: Ray Bradbury's Elliott Family and the Horror of Technology in Modern American Capitalism -- 10 "Inverted and Dark and Mildly Different": Gothic Domestic Relations in Ray Bradbury and Shirley Jackson
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11 "No Place in All Europe for Him": Monstrous Migrations in the Family Gothic -- 12 Family Fantasy and the Family: Divining the Elliotts through Depth Psychology and the Phenomenology of the Fantastic -- Appendix: The Elliott Family Bibliography -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 0367210940
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780367210946
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429265334
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429265334
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