Gothic Body
{{The Gothic Body}}
Basic Info
- Author: Kelly Hurley
- Year: 1996
- Type: secondary 1
Summary (brief)
-Monstrosity of Liminality; the gothic is concerned with depicting the abhuman it reaffirms, paradoxically, the fully human identity to which abhumanness is opposed, so that human identity is reconfigured at the very moment it is undone" (25)
Major Themes
Key Passages / Quotes
Quote 1
quote:: “Circumscribing of "the human" within a relentlessly material reality. Consciousness, will, volition - all those intangibles that comprise unique and wonderful human subjectivity, are theorized as physical phenomena, as intractible in their materiality as the solid human body But at the same time, the seeming solidity of the body is undone by Huxley's discussion of protoplasm, the essential substance of the cells.”
page:: 32
themes:: trans-corporeality
Genre Notes
-"The microscopic analysis of cell structure reveals what we may call the gothicity of matter" (33)
Characters / Concepts (if relevant)
Theory Connections
Related Texts
My Argument / Interpretation
Dissertation Relevance
How could this matter to my project?
-Discusses Freud and the uncanny, transcorporeality