Doing Heads
Adam Phillips
- Asylum by Patrick McGrath
Viking, 250 pp, £16.00, August 1996, ISBN 0 670 87001 3
In their Introduction to the Picador Book of the New Gothic, Patrick McGrath and Bradford Morrow proposed a familiar kind of progress myth to help us find our way around the New Gothic; the old, or rather, original Gothic being by definition a genre in which the protagonists lost their way in horror or deranged bewilderment. ‘Gothic fiction,’ they wrote,
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Vol. 18 No. 21 · 31 October 1996 » Adam Phillips » Doing Heads
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