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ger: In dieser Arbeit wird die Entwicklung der Gothic Fiction in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahr-hunderts untersucht. Dies geschieht anhand der Filme Alien von Ridley Scott und The Shi-ning von Stanley Kubrick, sowie Richard Mathesons Roman I Am Legend, die auf ihren so-zio-politischen Gehalt hin analysiert werden.
Gleichzeitig werden in dieser Arbeit entscheidende Theorien Julia Kristevas vorgestellt, hauptsächlich in Bezug auf ihre Werke Powers of Horror, The Revolution of the Poetic Lan-guage und Strangers to Ourselves. Unter Einbeziehung dieser Theorien werden die oben ge-nannten Texte analysiert unter Berücksichtigung psychoanalytischer und philosophischer As-pekte. Abjektion, Wahnsinn und Fremdenhass sind hierbei Schlüsselelemente, die als logisch aufeinander folgende Reaktionen gesehen werden.
eng: My aim in this thesis is twofold. On the one hand, I want to focus on the trajectory Gothic fiction has taken from the latter half of the 20th century onwards. In an attempt to understand the new directions of the genre at large, I offer close and detailed readings of hallmark texts reflecting the Gothic tradition, i.e. Ridley Scotts Alien, Stanley Kubricks The Shining and Richard Mathesons I Am Legend, which I make a conscious effort to reinscribe within their literary and socio-political contexts. At the same time, I engage with received interpretations of these texts, throw light on neglected issues or aspects and present original arguments with regard to specific problems raised in them. On the other hand, I present some key theories of Julia Kristeva mainly relying on her works Powers of Horror, Desire in Language and Strangers to Ourselves with the objective of proposing a reassessment of the Gothic in light of contemporary debates in psychoanalysis, philosophy, feminism and politics. My task is to weave together the different threads that make up the Gothic, that constitute Julia Kristevas major theories and that lend the genre its enduring significance today and thus show the potential of Kristevas work for re-thinking the literary tradition of the Gothic.
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