The Sense of Otherness in Kate’s Morton Novels
The Sense of Otherness in Kate’s Morton Novels

Summary/Abstract: My paper tries to bridge the gap between Neo-Gothic realities of now and Gothic potentialities of the last century, using both the theoretical background proposed by critics and an analysis on Kate’s Morton novels. The afterlife of the Gothic in Kate Morton’s works provides a prolific landscape for exploring the legacies of the past and its burdens on the present. Kate Morton’s writings play on circularity, blanks and fragmentation, in such a way that assembling all pieces together will not only reveal some secrets but will also solve the way out of the labyrinth. All her works allude to the myth of the Minotaur, projecting mysteries that need to be solved by assembling all the fragmented narratives.

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