This is a wide-ranging book about aspects of the Gothic, from classic texts such as Frankenstein and Wuthering Heights to contemporary fiction by Iain Banks, William Gibson and many others. It approaches the texts through looking at the opposition between the Gothic and the law, suggesting ways in which Gothic at all points produces transgression. It looks at horror fiction by, for example, Stephen King and Robert Bloch, as well as stories from China and Hong Kong, and suggests new ways in which contemporary literary and psychological theory might relate to and address the Gothic.

Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body and the Law

Literature & Fiction

Punter, David

History & Criticism

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This New Casebook contains ten essays written about Blake's poetry since 1970 selected to show the diversity of Blake criticism during the last twenty years and the ways in which contemporary critical theories open up new readings of his work. Essays representative of Marxist, psychoanalytic, deconstructionist, feminist and new historicist criticism are included. David Punter's Introduction places these in the context of recent developments in critical theory and shows how today's student can best engage with Blake's complex and rewarding work.

William Blake: Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebooks, 107)

Red Globe Press

Modernity (Transitions, 50)

This exciting volume in the Transitions series explores both history and contemporary ideas, pushing forward the boundaries of what we understand by 'modernity'. This book is distinguished from its competitors by its clear focus on close readings of commonly-studied texts and a strict policy on writing for an undergraduate readership.

Modernity (Transitions, 42)

Modernity is ubiquitous, unavoidable and indecipherable. This exciting volume in the Transitions series explores both history and contemporary ideas, pushing forward the boundaries of what we can understand by "modernity". Like other titles in the series, the book is distinguished from its competitors by its clear focus on close readings of commonly-studied texts and a strict policy on writing for an undergraduate readership.

British & Irish

Blake is one of the most extraordinary figures in English culture: a poet, a visionary, a mystic, his works offer us a compelling picture of a world of change. Included here are most of the best-known lyrics and important prose passages.

William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose (Routledge English Texts)

Routledge

Metaphor (The New Critical Idiom)

Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about metaphor. In this fascinating volume, David Punter:  establishes the classical background of the term from its philosophical roots to the religious and political tradition of metaphor in the East relates metaphor to the public realms of culture and politics and the way in which these influence the literary  examines metaphor in relation to literary theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies  illustrates his argument with specific examples from western and eastern literature and poetry.  This comprehensive and engaging book emphasizes the significance of metaphor to literary studies, as well as its relevance to cultural studies, linguistics and philosophy.

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about metaphor. In this fascinating volume, David Punter: <ul>
<li>establishes the classical background of the term from its philosophical roots to the religious and political tradition of metaphor in the East</li> <li>relates metaphor to the public realms of culture and politics and the way in which these influence the literary </li> <li>examines metaphor in relation to literary theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies </li> <li>illustrates his argument with specific examples from western and eastern literature and poetry. </li>
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This comprehensive and engaging book emphasizes the significance of metaphor to literary studies, as well as its relevance to cultural studies, linguistics and philosophy.

The first edition was regarded as the definitive survey of Gothic and related terror writing in English. No other text considers this genre on such a scale and covers the theoretical perspectives so comprehensively. In the latest edition, the broad range of theoretical perspectives has been enlarged to include modern critical theories. Volume One is a thoroughly updated edition of the original text, covering the period from 1765 up to the Edwardian age, exploring the richness and literary diversity of the gothic form: from the original eighteenth-century gothic of Ann Radcliffe to the melodramatic fiction of Wilkie Collins.

The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day, Vol. 1: The Gothic Tradition

Genre Fiction

The Literature of Terror: the Modern Gothic is the second volume in David Punter's impressive survey of gothic writing covering over two centuries. This long awaited second edition has been expanded to take into account the latest critical research, and is now published in two volumes. Volume One covers the period from 1765 to the Edwardian age while Volume Two discusses modern gothic, starting with the 'decadent' gothic writing of Oscar Wilde and continuing through the twentieth century.

The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day, Vol. 2: The Modern Gothic

Uses the works of authors from Plato to Iain Banks to explore writing and the passions in thought and literature. Topics addressed in the book include the meaning of crime passionnel, art, passion and ceremonial, adoration and abjection, and the nature of the exotic.

Writing the Passions

Longman Pub. Group

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Books by Punter, David

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Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body and the Law

William Blake: Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebooks, 107)

Modernity (Transitions, 42)

Modernity (Transitions, 50)

William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose (Routledge English Texts)

Metaphor (The New Critical Idiom)

Metaphor (The New Critical Idiom)

The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day, Vol. 1: The Gothic Tradition

The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day, Vol. 2: The Modern Gothic

Writing the Passions