New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic The Gothic Compass [Hardcover]

This bookbrings together a carefully selected range of contemporary disciplinary approaches to new areas of Gothic inquiry. Moving beyond the representational and historically based aspects of literature and film that have dominated Gothic studies, this volume both acknowledges the contemporary diversification of Gothic scholarship and maps its changing and mutating incarnations. Drawing strength from their fascinating diversity, and points of correlation, the varied perspectives and subject areas cohere around a number of core themes  of re-evaluation, discovery, and convergence  to reveal emerging trends and new directions in Gothic scholarship. Visiting fascinating areas including the Gothic and digital realities, uncanny food experiences, representations of death and the public media, Gothic creatures and their popular legacies, new approaches to contemporary Gothic literature, and re-evaluations of the Gothic mode through regional narratives, essays reveal many patterns and intersecting approaches, forcefully testifying to the multifaceted, although lucidly coherent, nature of Gothic studies in the 21^stCentury. The multiple disciplines represented  from digital inquiry to food studies, from fine art to dramaturgy  engage with the Gothic in order to offer new definitions and methodological approaches to Gothic scholarship. The interdisciplinary, transnational focus of this volume provides exciting new insights into, and expanded and revitalised definitions of, the Gothic and its related fields.

Introduction: The Gothic Compass Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Donna Lee Brien  1. Gothic Affect: An Alternative Approach to Critical Models of the Contemporary Gothic Xavier Aldana Reyes  2. The Gothic Landscape of Tale of TalesGames: Unresolved Quests for Meaning Maria Cohut  3.Adapting Gothic Literature for Animation Hannes Rall and Danilƒ`