Наслеђе 60 (2025) [103-111]
АУТОР(И) / AUTHOR(S): Bojana S. Vujin
DOI: 10.46793/NasKg2560.103V
САЖЕТАК /ABSTRACT:
Children’s literature and the Gothic share a long history and have a complicated relationship, which is both complementary and antagonistic. The Turn of the Millennium saw the unprecedented popularity of children’s Gothic texts, with Neil Gaiman’s Coraline (2002) often singled out as exemplary of this new trend. Building upon the work of theorists of children’s Gothic (Buckley) and postmodern Gothic (Spooner), this paper analyses Coraline as a postmodern parodic Gothic text, with the emphasis on intertextuality, Gothic clichés, and the deliberate surface quality of its Gothic motifs. Coraline is here seen as a self-aware Gothic text which parodies the usual psychoanalytic readings of children’s Gothic and instead claims for itself a space similar to that occupied by other works by Neil Gaiman, that of a story about storytelling itself.
КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ / KEYWORDS:
Coraline, Neil Gaiman, children’s literature, Gothic, intertextuality, parody
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