Gothic Metaphysics

preview-18
  • Gothic Metaphysics Book Detail

  • Author : Jodey Castricano
  • Release Date : 2021-11-15
  • Publisher : University of Wales Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 296
  • ISBN 13 : 1786837951
  • File Size : 1,1 MB

Gothic Metaphysics by Jodey Castricano PDF Summary

Book Description: Gothic Metaphysics is a radical departure from Freudian-centred criticism of Gothic literature. It aims to explore our modern dilemma in the time of the Anthropocene, by bringing to light the role of Gothic since its inception in 1764 in holding space for a worldview familiar to certain mystical traditions – such as alchemy, which held to the view of a living cosmos yet later deemed ‘uncanny’ and anachronistic by Freud. In developing this idea, Gothic Metaphysics explores the influence of the Middle Ages on the emergence of Gothic, seeing it as an encrypted genre that serves as the site of a ‘live burial’ of ‘animism’, which has emerged in the notion of ‘quantum entanglement’ best described by Carl G. Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli in the theory of synchronicity linking alchemy with quantum mechanics. This relationship finds itself in dialogue with the Gothic’s long-held concern for the ‘sentience of space and place’, as described by renowned Gothic scholar Fredrick Frank. The volume Gothic Metaphysics is multi-valent and explores how Gothic has sustained the view of a sentient world despite the disqualification of nature – not only in respect to the extirpation of animism as a worldview, but also with regard to an affirmation of consciousness beyond that of human exceptionalism.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Gothic Metaphysics books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Gothic Metaphysics

Gothic Metaphysics

File Size : 10,10 MB
Total View : 2628 Views
DOWNLOAD

Gothic Metaphysics is a radical departure from Freudian-centred criticism of Gothic literature. It aims to explore our modern dilemma in the time of the Anthrop

Empire and the Gothic

Empire and the Gothic

File Size : 57,57 MB
Total View : 225 Views
DOWNLOAD

This innovative volume considers the relationship between the Gothic and theories of Post-Colonialism. Contributors explore how writers such as Salman Rushdie,

Eurasia without Borders

Eurasia without Borders

File Size : 17,17 MB
Total View : 2343 Views
DOWNLOAD

A long-awaited corrective to the controversial idea of world literature, from a major voice in the field. Katerina Clark charts interwar efforts by Soviet, Euro

Taxidermy and the Gothic

Taxidermy and the Gothic

File Size : 87,87 MB
Total View : 3326 Views
DOWNLOAD

Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. It tells the story of the emergence i