Gothic Motifs in the Fiction of William Gibson

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-420-1761-0
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 253 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Postmodern Studies

Gibson’s startlingly new form of science fiction opens inner vistas through his sense of how technological development increasingly removes the boundaries between the realms of the imagined and the real. This important new study focuses on the visual elements in Gibson’s work, suggesting how his extraordinary mindscapes are locatable in terms of both gothic and the graphic novel traditions in a subtle interweaving of physical and virtual space that creates new forms of spatial being. Gibson describes the space of the Walled City as "Doorways flipping past, each one hinting at its own secret world": Tatiani G. Rapatzikou's thoughtful analyses of those secret worlds will fascinate all those who have wondered where these fictions have come from—and where they may be headed.

Allan Lloyd Smith, Senior Lecturer, School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rapatzikou, Tatiani G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One
1. Enter Cyberpunk: An Itinerary of Visual Manifestations
Chapter Two
2. The Emergence of Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Elaboration on the Idea of Genre
Chapter Three
3. The Idea of the Spectacular: Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive and Count Zero
Chapter Four
4. Zombies in the Age of Terminal Culture: Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero and the Graphic Novels
Chapter Five
5. Alternate Histories and Technological Aestheticisation: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine
Chapter Six
6. William Gibson’s “Architecture”: Virtual Light, idoru and All Tomorrow’s Parties
Conclusion
Appendix: Interview with William Gibson
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Tatiani G. Rapatzikou read English at the University of Athens, Greece, and she subsequently completed her postgraduate studies at the Universities of Lancaster and East Anglia, England. She is now Lecturer in 20th century American Literature and Culture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.