n° 15 – Les vestiges du gothique. Le rôle du reste / The remains of the gothic. Persistence as Resistance

All the contributors to this issue of Caliban have been less concerned with establishing criteria for stable definitions of « genuinely » gothic motifs than with following the migration of these themes to other works. They have explored the dynamics of texts which have inserted, quoted, transposed, collected and reshaped the disjecta membra of the gothic genre. Identifying the remains in detective or forensic fashion was not a major concern : rather, the authors have wondered why these gothic motifs have so insistently appeared and reappeared in fiction as well as in critical discourse.