Naslov
The Fantastic of the Fin de Siècle
(The Fantastic in the Fin de Siècle)

Urednik/ci
Grubica, Irena ; Beran, Zdeněk

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija knjige
Uredničke knjige, monografija, ostalo

Izdavač
Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Grad
Newcastle upon Tyne

Godina
2016

Stranica
295

ISBN
978-1-4438-9742-6

Ključne riječi
fatanstic ; literature ; Fin de Siècle

Sažetak
Fin de siècle produced the biggest gamut of masterpieces brimming with fantastic and gothic elements, which has only recently been brought under closer critical scrutiny and whose importance has been re-evaluated from various theoretical and interdisciplinary perspectives. This collection of essays aims to provide a platform for rich theoretical and critical insights in the fantastic literature in order to delineate various relations between the fantastic and the fin de siècle and to contextualize its historical and cultural significance. The topics of the essays include, but are not limited to, the relations between the fantastic and gender, canon, popular fiction, fin-de-siècle aesthetics, supernatural, scientific development and progress, temporality, cultural anxiety and social crisis, cultural subversion, literary in relation to other modes of representations, visual and performance. Essays concentrated on a single author/text (e.g. Bram Stoker, Arthur Machen, R. L. Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, etc.) favour comparative analyses and cultural approaches. Some essays highlighting the interaction of fin-de-siècle fantastic and gothic literature with other literary periods, both canonical and popular literature, in terms of the reception, intertextuality and their dialogic and cultural implications are also included.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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