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8 juillet 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.pur.36427
- isbn: 9782753508422
- eisbn: 9782753546851
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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littérature fantastique littérature de langue anglaise XXème siècle étrangeté histoire LIT004120 Literature (General) DSBSujets proches
Family Family structure Families--Social aspects Families--Social conditions Family life Structure, Family Family relationships Relationships, Family Biography--Ancestry Relations with family Biography--Descendants Biography--Family AncestryCiter ce document
Magali Falco, « Deadly funny, laughing at the dead : John Banville’s Birchwood », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.36427
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John Banville’s Birchwood is an uncanny novel whose title refers to Gabriel’s eerie family household. The eponymous title indicates that the novel is first and foremost built on Gothic remains. Birchwood is the name of a grotesque Gothic house that literally consumes Grandma Godkin and the rest of the family, but at a more metaphorical level, it also encompasses Gothic motifs such as family secrets and hauntings, dark doubles, a madwoman in the attic, and most of all, an incestuous affair. Va...