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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Main Author: Ingebretsen, Edward 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2004]
In: Journal of media and religion
Year: 2004, Volume: 3, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-42
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)