UID:
edocfu_9960782128002883
Format:
1 online resource (291 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-8394-5559-6
Series Statement:
Contemporary literature ; Volume 4
Content:
Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses, academic disciplines, and fiction genres. In this book, Rahel Sixta Schmitz defines and discusses a trope recurring in Gothic fiction: the supernatural media virus. This trope comprises the confluence of the virus, the network, and a deep, underlying media anxiety. This study shows how Gothic narratives such as House of Leaves or The Ring feature the supernatural media virus to negotiate as well as actively shape imaginations of the network society and the dangers of a globalized, technologized world.
Note:
Doctoral Thesis Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen 2020
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Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 List of Figures 7 Acknowledgments 9 Introduction: The Age of Virus Anxiety 11 1. The Virus, the Network, and the Supernatural Media Virus 39 2. Ghostwatch and the Advent of the Network Society 83 3. House of Leaves, the Network Paradigm, and the Abstract Supernatural Media Virus 115 4. The Moral Dimension of the Supernatural Media Virus in the Ring Franchise 155 5. The Digital Supernatural Media Virus and the Network Apocalypse in Kairo and Pulse 205 Conclusions: Future Mutations of the Supernatural Media Virus 249 Bibliography 269
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-8376-5559-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
