![]() ![]() ![]() “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Electronic edition by Project Gutenberg. “Teacher Suspended for Giving ‘Self-pleasure’ Reading to Students.” New York Post (9 November 2009). ![]() Gothic-postmodernism: Voicing the Terrors of Postmodernity. This article examines the rhetoric of the unclean in the novel with the use of Julia Kristeva’s category of the abject and it rereads Haunted as both an addition to and a commentary on the canon of works which capitalize on haunted spaces, fragmented bodies and the illusory nature of the lived reality.īeville, M. Whittier, the owner of the original device and the mastermind behind the plot, turn to murder, cannibalism and self-mutilation to enhance the effect that the story of their survival will have upon its (and their) release. The readers, too, are allowed a peek into the nightmare box that the setting of the novel transforms into as its inhabitants, observed and recorded by a Mr. ![]() Here, twenty-three tales told by writers trapped in an abandoned theatre flesh out the frame narrative whose key takes the form of the “Nightmare Box,” a mysterious apparatus allowing a glimpse into the indescribable (or “the real reality”). Palahniuk, Haunted, horror, abject, metafction AbstractĬhuck Palahniuk’s Haunted is a novel made of stories but also a novel about the tradition of telling stories, particularly those meant to evoke terror and shock, as well as related pleasures. ![]()
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