[PDF.26ir] Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic

Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic

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 | #695339 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  1999-11-01 |  1999-09-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.25 x.52 x5.25l,.52 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A Problematic yet Insightful Book|By Michael A. Kleen|For someone who begins by insulting horror fans as "losers," Mark Edmundson has produced a work that is surprisingly as insightful as it is presumptive. Nightmare on Main Street is essentially a long essay, broken into three inter-related sections. His premise is bold: that we live in a culture saturated by the Gothic. The p|.com |If you observe American pop culture, you'll recognize the questions Mark Edmundson raises in Nightmare on Main Street: Why are the 1990s seeing a resurgence of the gothic? Why do tabloid stories about people such as O. J. Simpson and Lorena Bobbitt

Once we've terrified ourselves reading Anne Rice or Stephen King, watching Halloween or following the O. J. Simpson trial, we can rely on the comfort of our inner child or Robert Bly's bongos, an angel, or even a crystal. In a brilliant assessment of American culture on the eve of the millennium, Mark Edmundson asks why we're determined to be haunted, courting the Gothic at every turn--and, at the same time, committed to escape through any new scheme for ready-...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Nightmare on Main Street: Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic   |  Mark Edmundson. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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