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bg257d29b61	Brett Christopher Paice	Postmodern American Gothic: The Politics of Fear in the Works of Thomas Pynchon, David Lynch, and Steve Erickson	2010		.txt	text/plain	362	12	21	Deconstructing the tropic elements of the gothic genre distinguishes these artists' creation of a gothic aesthetic that privileges the lived horrors of historical record (slavery, the Holocaust, imperial modernity, oppression engendered through male-centered master narratives) over the metaphorical monsters of the traditional Gothic narrative that represent actual cultural anxieties over lived social conditions. THE POLITICS OF FEAR IN THE WORKS OF THOMAS PYNCHON, DAVID LYNCH, AND STEVE ERICKSON Abstract by Brett Paice Whereas the Gothic traditionally relied upon supernatural figures of evil (vampires, ghosts, monsters) to produce the sensation of fear or terror, contemporary manifestations of the Gothic repudiate such abstracted constructions, favoring, instead, metonymical and everyday representations of terror.	cache/bg257d29b61.txt	txt/bg257d29b61.txt