: the house as subject Ng, Andrew Hock-soon creator Ng, Andrew Hock-soon text New York :Palgrave Macmillan 2015 monographic eng

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xii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. 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 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. / Andrew Hock-soon Ng 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 809.387 NGA 9781137536815 :Zafaa Books & Distributors :313/56F 49A, Anand Nagar Inderlok Delhi 110035 220325 20220531112722.0