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American Gothic Tales Book

"Many of the writers in this volume are not 'gothic' writers but simply--writers. Their inclusion here is meant to suggest the richness and magnitude of the gothic-grotesque vision and the inadequacy of genre labels if by 'genre' is meant mere formula." So writes Joyce Carol Oates in a historical introduction to this anthology of 46 tales--tales that span a range from the Puritan paranoia of Charles Brockden Brown (1798) to the biological surrealism of Nicholson Baker (1994). Some critics have written that the gothic sensibility has no relevance in contemporary literature: by showing how gothic tales portray the all-too-current phenomenon of "assaults on individual identity and autonomy," Oates proves them wrong. I predict this will in time be considered a classic and influential anthology.Read More

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  • Product Description

    A collection of more than forty tales of horror and suspense begins with such nineteenth-century writers as Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne and and includes the works of Flannery O'Connor, Stephen King, Anne Rice, William Faulkner, E. B. White, and others.

  • 0452274893
  • 9780452274891
  • Joyce Carrol Oates
  • 5 December 1996
  • G P Putnam's Sons
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 560
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