This Element provides new ways of reading the soundscape of the Gothic text. Drawing inspiration from the field of 'sonic Gothic' studies, which has been spearheaded by the writings of Isabella van Elferen, as well as from Mladen Dolar's articulation of the psychoanalytic 'object' voice, this study introduces the critical category of 'vococentric Gothic' into Gothic scholarship. In so doing, it reads important moments in Gothic fiction when the voice takes precedence as an uncanny, monstrous or seductive object.
Historically informed, the range of readings proffered demonstrate the persistence of these vocal motifs across time (from the Gothic romance to contemporary Gothic) and across intermedia forms (from literature to film to podcasts). Gothic Voices, then, provides the first dedicated account of voices of terror and horror as they develop in the Gothic mode from the Romantic period until today.
| ISBN: | 9781009162562 |
| Publication date: | 9th February 2023 |
| Author: | Matt Foley |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 65 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Elements. Elements in the Gothic |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 |
This Element provides new ways of reading the soundscape of the Gothic text. Drawing inspiration from the field of 'sonic Gothic' studies, which has been spearheaded by the writings of Isabella van Elferen, as well as from Mladen Dolar's articulation of the psychoanalytic 'object' voice, this study introduces the critical category of 'vococentric Gothic' into Gothic scholarship.
Gothic Voices features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600
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Gothic Voices was written by Matt Foley and published by Cambridge University Press
Gothic Voices has 65 pages
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