2014
DOI: 10.4324/9781315842158
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The Literature of Terror: Volume 2

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“…33 The Gothic villain, as David Punter points out, is a much more complex character: "awe-inspiring, endlessly resourceful in pursuit of his often opaquely evil ends, and yet possessed of a mysterious attractiveness … manipulating the doom of others while the knowledge of his own eventual fate surrounds him". 34 Japanese Gothic texts problematize such distinction, as the boundary between the victim and the villain is replaced by the bond between the two. Both the victims and their oppressors appear to share similar characteristics and their placement as one or the other is often incidental and could easily be reversed.…”
Section: Invisible Bonds -Without One There Is No Othermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…33 The Gothic villain, as David Punter points out, is a much more complex character: "awe-inspiring, endlessly resourceful in pursuit of his often opaquely evil ends, and yet possessed of a mysterious attractiveness … manipulating the doom of others while the knowledge of his own eventual fate surrounds him". 34 Japanese Gothic texts problematize such distinction, as the boundary between the victim and the villain is replaced by the bond between the two. Both the victims and their oppressors appear to share similar characteristics and their placement as one or the other is often incidental and could easily be reversed.…”
Section: Invisible Bonds -Without One There Is No Othermentioning
confidence: 99%
“…No obstante, este tipo de análisis narrativo y poético vio un auge signifi cativo a partir de los años ochenta, y especialmente en relación al trabajo crítico de investigadores británicos y norteamericanos que se centraron principalmente en el estudio de obras de origen anglosajón, y, progresivamente, de otras partes del mundo (Punter 1980, Botting 1996 No es extraño, pues, que esta nueva crítica de la literatura de terror no haya utilizado la narrativa hispanoamericana como tema de estudio, ni que no se haya aplicado el término "gótico" para denominar ciertas características de algunas obras del continente que poseen manifi estos rasgos del género. El reducido número de investigadores que han analizado el gótico hispanoamericano ofrecen una serie de teorías diversas acerca de la poca popularidad de este tipo de análisis en el territorio, que comprenden desde razones históricas y sociales de carácter territorial, hasta explicaciones más universales.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…According to Punter (1996), "monsters are not, as they were with Walpole's animated giants, or Lewis's demons, externally manifested sources of danger. Instead, by the mid-nineteenth century such horrors had largely been internalized.…”
Section: Le Fanu's Creative Work: General Overviewmentioning
confidence: 99%