02297nam a22003137a 4500 20220531112722.0 220325b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781137536815 :Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 :ZBD0853 :21/03/2022 809.387 NGA Ng, Andrew Hock-soon, Women and Domestic Space in Contemporary Gothic Narratives : the house as subject / Andrew Hock-soon Ng New York, :Palgrave Macmillan 2015. xii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. 8009 Geocriticism and spatial literary studies. Introduction: the subject of the house in gothic narratives -- Housing treachery. Angela Carter's The magic toyshop and love -- Housing the unspeakable. Valerie Martin's Property and Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Housing secret selves. William Friedkin's The exorcist and Roman Polanski's Repulsion -- Housing melancholia. Alejandro Amenábar's The others and Juan A. Bayona's The orphanage -- Conclusion: housing redemption. Janice Galloway's The trick is to keep breathing and Alison Bechdel's Fun home. Moving away from traditional studies of Gothic domesticity based on symbolism, Andrew Hock Soon Ng instead focuses on domestic space's material presence and the traces it leaves on the human subjects inhabiting it. Discussing contemporary novels by Angela Carter, Valerie Martin, Toni Morrison, and Janice Galloway; films such as The Exorcist, Repulsion, The Others, and The Orphanage; and Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking autobiographical work, Fun Home, within a framework of psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and spatial and architectural theories, this book reveals the complicated relationship between the house and the female subject Literature History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- History and criticism. Dwellings in literature. Dwellings in motion pictures. Home in literature. Women in motion pictures. Dwellings in literature. Ng, Andrew Hock-soon, BOOK 58954 58954 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2022-03-25 Zafaa Books & Distributors 8009.00 0 809.387 NGA 28547 2022-03-25 00:00:00 2022-03-25 BOOK