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Overview
This book reads the Gothic corpus with a thoroughly postmodern critical apparatus, pointing out that the Gothic Sublime anticipates our own doomed desire to pass beyond the hyperreal. A highly sophisticated theoretical reading of key texts of the Gothic, this book allows the reader to re-live the Gothic, not simply as a nostalgic relic or a pre-romantic aberration, but as a living presence that has strong resonances with the postmodern condition.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780791417485
- ISBN-10: 0791417484
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publish Date: May 1994
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.74 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.04 pounds
- Page Count: 352
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