Index.
Preface. 1
Part I. Introduction. 6
1. Postmodernism and Gothic Resurrection. 6
2. The Main Features of Gothic-Postmodernism. 9
2.1. Hybridization. 10
2.2. Adaptation and Remediation. 11
2.3. Metafiction. 14
3. The Main Themes and Symbols of Gothic-Postmodernism. 16
3.1. Terror and Sublime. 17
3.2. Blurring Boundaries: Between the Natural and the Supernatural. 20
3.3. The Uncanny. 22
Part II. The Fairy Tale and the Gothic in Neil Gaiman's Postmodern Narratives. 26
4. The Fairy Tale from its Origins to Today. 26
4.1. The Origins. 27
4.2. Modern and Postmodern Fairy Tale: the 'Disneyfication' of the genre. 30
4.3. The Fairy Tale Revival: the Sandman has Come Back. 34
5. Coraline. 37
5.1. The Genesis. 37
5.2. Plot, Structure and Main Gothic Features: a Very Uncanny Story. 39 5.3. Quest for Identity and Metafiction: a Postmodern Fairy Tale. 45
6. The Graveyard Book. 52
6.1. Structure and Main Themes: a Classical Fairy Tale? 53
6.2. Another Quest for Identity: “Nobody” Becomes Nobody Owens 57
Part III. The Phenomenon of Remediation in the Graphic Novel and the Stop-Motion Animation Film. 61
7. The Graphic Novel. 62
7.1. The Graphic Novel and the Gothic: Structure and Layout in Coraline and The Graveyard Book. 65
8. The Film Adaptation. 72
8.1. The Stop-Motion Animation Film and Coraline: Genesis and
Gothic Features. 74
Conclusions. 82
Bibliography. 85
Appendix. 89
