'I Might Just Split a Seam': Fabric and Somatic Integrity in the work of Tim Burton

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Abstract

Andrew Smith and William Hughes (2014) begin the introduction of their companion to Gothic literature with a quote from A Christmas Carol (Dickens 1843). Dickens describes the ghost of Christmas past as a figure without a clearly defined ontological form, a vision of ‘dissolving parts [that] fluctuated in its distinctness’ (in Smith and Hughes 2014: 1). This is an effective introduction, according to Smith and Hughes, to the Gothic preoccupation with fragmented bodies and psyches. Dickens’s account thus provides a useful starting point for this chapter, which investigates Tim Burton’s reconfigurations of Gothic discourses on ‘dissolving’ embodiment.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTim Burton’s Bodies
Subtitle of host publicationGothic, Animated, Corporeal and Creaturely
EditorsStella Hockenhull, Frances Pheasant-Kelly
PublisherEdinburgh University Press
Chapter11
Pages148-160
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9781474456920, 9781474456937
ISBN (Print)9781474456913, 9781474456906
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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