LIBROS DEL AUTOR: fred botting

8 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: fred botting

  • Sex, machines and navels
    Fred Botting
    Available again in paperback, this study offers a rigorous critical re-reading of fictions of humanity, history, technology and postmodern culture.Taking psychoanalysis into cyberspace, the book develops an innovative theoretical perspective on the relationship between bodies and machines to offer a focused re-examination of notions of desire, metaphor, sexed identity and diffe...
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    33,22 €

  • Gothic
    Fred Botting
    This enduringly popular book has become a classic in the expanding and increasingly popular field of Gothic Studies. This long awaited new edition contains a new chapter on ’Contemporary Gothic’, an expanded section on American Gothic and more discussion of the gothic in women’s film and writing througout the book. ...
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    54,34 €

  • Limits of horror
    Fred Botting
    Horror isn’t what it used to be. Nor are its Gothic avatars.The meaning of monsters, vampires and ghosts has changed significantly over the last two hundred years, as have the mechanisms (from fiction to fantasmagoria, film and video games) through which they are produced and consumed. Limits of horror, moving from gothic to cybergothic, through technological modernity and acro...
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    29,60 €

  • Gothic Romanced
    Fred Botting
    Gothic Romanced traces the history, and complicity, of gothic and romantic writings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present day. Botting manages a fluid and extensive exploration of generic boundaries, including Gothic fiction, Romantic poetry, literary pastiches, popular horror fiction, cyberpunk and science fiction. ...
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    77,39 €

  • The Gothic
    Fred Botting
    The popularity of Gothic fictions, themes and films suggests that the genre is the norm as much as the dark underside of contemporary cultural production. Having endured for over two hundred years and settled onto numerous respectable courses of study, the meaning and value of the Gothic seems due for reappraisal. The essays in this volume, written by critics whose work over th...
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    94,74 €

  • Bataille
    Fred Botting
    Bataille is the first book of its kind-a lucid guide to reading literary and cultural texts in the light of George Bataille’s work. It explores the significance of Bataillean notions such as heterology, transgression, and eroticism through detailed readings of Shakespeare and early modern literature, Gothic and postmodernist fiction, and popular movies. Bataillean concepts are ...
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    64,17 €

  • The Tarantinian Ethics
    Fred Botting / Scott Wilson
    The screenplays and films of Quentin Tarantino raise profound comic and ethical dilemmas. Developing ideas from Lacanian psychoanalysis, the authors explore ethical issues in relation to Tarantino’s work, postmodernity and recent cultural theory. They argue that Tarantino’s texts provide a provocative and telling contribution to theorized accounts of contemporary culture. ...
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    254,83 €

  • Frankenstein
    Fred Botting
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    48,31 €