Reading Scandal: Civic Gothic as Genre
This article proposes that recent media accounts of the "priest pedophile" employ a conventional Gothic mode as frame. The binary split into sentimentalized victims and demonized adults stabilizes a narrative that verges toward incoherency for reasons of genre form, readerly investment, an...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2004]
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Journal of media and religion
Year: 2004, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-42 |
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