Dark Museum (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780989804868)

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Michelle Gil- Montero. In this book of lyric critical essays, Argentinian poet and critic Mar a Negroni writes about Gothic works--ranging from Horace Walpole's classic novel The Castle of Otranto to Julia Kristeva's Black Sun to James Cameron's film Aliens--and develops an accumulative, absorbing, transnational theory of politics and aesthetics. In the introduction she writes: I want to share something of that fascinating imaginary, packed with castles and lakes, crypts and laboratories, music boxes and evil gardens, urban ruins and boats like coffins ferrying magnificent dreams. Because in that atmosphere, it is my impression, something crucial materializes: a purely sentimental domain where it is suddenly possible to perceive, under any light, the critical link between childhood and atrocity, art and crime, passion and fear, and the desire for fusion and writing.

Author: Maria Negroni
ISBN-10: 0989804860
ISBN-13: 9780989804868
Publisher: Action Books
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2015
Pages: 32
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 6.80h x 4.80w x 0.20d