Are We the Future of the Past?’
Gothic Pasts, Gothic Futures, and Imaginary Lives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8892188 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Otto (0000-0002-1037-3850, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9697 • E-ISSN: 1837-6479 |
| Publisher | Australian Literary Studies (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.20314/als.a6b3591381 |
| OpenAlex | W2337967745 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
â Peter Ottoâ s essay â ¦ argues that the novelâ s temporal frame, and its evocation of a species of Gothicism, challenges conventional periodisationâ (p.4). The author argues that â the space of engagement conjured by our â ¦ slow reading of An Imaginary Life , offers an important allegory of the situation of white Australians. Read in these terms, it suggests just how important it might be for white Australians, temporarily, to resist the urge to belong, and that they might not want to become the â final manâ , the â white aborigineâ , that their own past has dreamedâ (p.100)
Aesthetics · Allegory · Art · Art history · Evocation · Frame (networking · Futures contract · Linguistics · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · The Imaginary · White (mutation · Computer Science · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |