TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Title:
Haunted Artists in Patrick McGrath’s New Gothic: A Bakhtinian Approach
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
1.1.Research Background and Patrick McGrath’s Biography
1.2.Research Problems
1.3.Research Question
1.4.Thesis Structure
2. Literature Review
2.1.Patrick McGrath’s New Gothic
2.2.Psychoanalysis as an Approach to McGrath’s Narratives
2.3.Modernism as an Influence on McGrath
3. Methodology
3.1 Research Framework
3.2 Bakhtin’s Dialogism, Chronotope, the Carnivalesque and the Grotesque
3.3 Bakhtin’s Early Essays as the Chosen Methodology.
4. Asylum: The I-For-Another Relationship-Doubling
4.1. The Unreliable Narrator and his Victims
4.2. The Unvoiced Female Character
4.3. The Disturbed Sculptor: a Bluebeard Figure
5. Port Mungo: The I-For-Myself
5.1. The Painter Creating a Self-mythology
5.2. The Gothic Trope of Incest
5.3. The Artist as a Psychic Vampire
6. The Wardrobe Mistress: The Other and Otherness
6.1. Depression and Trauma as Mind Boundaries
6.2. Answerability: Fascism and the Reactions to It
6.3. Doubling and Incest
7. Last Days in Cleaver Square: The Deed and its Trauma
7.1. Dementia and Decay: Horizon and Environment
7.2. Francoism: Repression and Otherness
7.3. The Poet as Creator
8. Conclusions
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