Hans-Ulrich Mohr
Biographic Data
| ID | 2005969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans-Ulrich Mohr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans-Ulrich |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohr |
| SIGNATURE | MOHR H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Gothic Terms, Themes, Concepts and Contexts
Just as THE UNCANNY offers a connection to the structure of the unconscious, the abject offers a sensation of horror that connects us viscerally to the experience of repression and the process of subject formation. For Julia Kristeva, in Powers of Horror, abjection disturbs ‘identity, system, order’ and is characterised by ‘the in-between, the ambiguous, the composite’.
Writers of Gothic
Ainsworth made his first venture into sensational fiction with ‘The Test of Affection’ (European Magazine, 1822), a tale that relies heavily on artificial ‘SUPERNATURAL’ devices in the ANN RADCLIFFE mode for its effect. It was followed by ‘The Spectre Bride’ (Arliss’s Pocket Magazine, 1822) and his early Gothic tales were collected in his first book, the anonymous December Tales (1823). All of this youthful work — which displays more enthusiasm t…
Gothic Locations
In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), Leslie Fiedler describes AMERICAN LITERATURE as ‘bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction’ that wrestles with moral/psychological questions and exposes the American soul’s hidden ‘blackness’. Attentive to the dark side of America’s socio-political legacy and ‘the sins of the fathers’, American Gothic wrestles with that nation’s two ‘special guilts’ — ‘the slaughter of the Indians’ and ‘the…
Aesthetic experience and functional history
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Aesthetic experience and functional history
Gothic Terms, Themes, Concepts and Contexts
Just as THE UNCANNY offers a connection to the structure of the unconscious, the abject offers a sensation of horror that connects us viscerally to the experience of repression and the process of subject formation. For Julia Kristeva, in Powers of Horror, abjection disturbs ‘identity, system, order’ and is characterised by ‘the in-between, the ambiguous, the composite’.
Writers of Gothic
Ainsworth made his first venture into sensational fiction with ‘The Test of Affection’ (European Magazine, 1822), a tale that relies heavily on artificial ‘SUPERNATURAL’ devices in the ANN RADCLIFFE mode for its effect. It was followed by ‘The Spectre Bride’ (Arliss’s Pocket Magazine, 1822) and his early Gothic tales were collected in his first book, the anonymous December Tales (1823). All of this youthful work — which displays more enthusiasm t…
Gothic Locations
In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), Leslie Fiedler describes AMERICAN LITERATURE as ‘bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction’ that wrestles with moral/psychological questions and exposes the American soul’s hidden ‘blackness’. Attentive to the dark side of America’s socio-political legacy and ‘the sins of the fathers’, American Gothic wrestles with that nation’s two ‘special guilts’ — ‘the slaughter of the Indians’ and ‘the…
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