Gothic Discourse in Jeffrey Eugenides’s 'The Virgin Suicides' – Challenging Suburban Uniformity and (Re)Imagining “The Other”

This paper argues that Jeffrey Eugenides, in his début novel, The Virgin Suicides, first questions and then challenges ‘the homeliness’ of the American suburbia by adopting an unsettling gothic discourse and by creating gothic subjects (the Lisbons). Gothic discourse includes the gothic tropes of c...

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出版年:Linguaculture
第一著者: Ana-Cristina Băniceru
フォーマット: 論文
言語:英語
出版事項: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press 2018-12-01
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オンライン・アクセス:https://journal.linguaculture.ro/index.php/home/article/view/121