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1 y separately published work icon Representations & Reflections V & R Unipress (publisher), Bonn University Press (publisher), Goettingen : V & R Unipress Bonn University Press , Z1796025 series - publisher criticism
1 y separately published work icon Pride and Prejudice 2.0 : Interpretations, Adaptations and Transformations of Jane Austen's Classic Hanne Birk (editor), Marion Gymnich (editor), Gottingen : Bonn University Press , 2015 10694432 2015 anthology criticism

'Austen's Pride and Prejudice has been adapted, transformed and translated into numerous languages. Thus the classic today constitutes an international, transcultural, transmedial and iconic phenomenon of pop culture that transcends genre boundaries as easily as centuries. The vitality of the book at the crossroads of the literary canon and pop culture is analysed by contributions focusing on its translations, Bollywood adaptations, iconic TV versions or vlog adaptations, on erotic rewritings or generic transformations into Chick-Lit, crime fiction or the Gothic mode, on teaching contexts or on a diachronic analysis of its illustrations. Complemented by a compilation of student essays, this volume affirms and celebrates Pride and Prejudice being perhaps more alive than ever before.' (Publication summary)
1 2 y separately published work icon Darkness Subverted : Aboriginal Gothic in Black Australian Literature and Film Katrin Althans , Goettingen : Bonn University Press , 2010 Z1796030 2010 multi chapter work criticism 'At the heart of the Gothic novel proper lies the discursive binary of self and other, which in colonial literature was quickly filled with representations of the colonial master and his indigenous subject. Contemporary black Australian artists have usurped this colonial Gothic discourse, torn it to pieces, and finally transformed it into an Aboriginal Gothic. This study first develops the theoretical concept of an Aboriginal Gothic and then uses this term as a tool to analyse novels by Vivienne Cleven, Mudrooroo, Kim Scott, Sam Watson, and Alexis Wright as well as films directed by Beck Cole and Tracey Moffatt. It centres on the question of how a genuinely European mode, the Gothic, can be permeated and thus digested by elements of indigenous Australian culture in order to portray the current situation of Aboriginal Australians and to celebrate a recovered cultural identity.' (Publisher's blurb)
Contents include:
  • Aboriginal Gothic
  • Aboriginal Appropriations
  • Re-Biting the Canon: Mudrooroo's Vampire Trilogy
  • De-Composing the Epic: Sam Watson's The Kadaithcha Sung
  • Un-Singing Historiography: Kim Scott's Benang
  • Con-Juring the Phantom: Spectral Memories
  • Trans-Muting Cinema: Tracey Moffatt's Films
  • Conclusion: Creation in Resistance
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