<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Theodora Tsimpouki</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Maria Pirgerou</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;div&gt;The Waterworks: A Parallax View of a Modern Gothic Tale&lt;/div&gt;</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">American Gothic Studies</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2025</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://doi.org/10.5325/ags.1.1.0081</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vol. 1</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">81-98</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;In his 1994 novel The Waterworks, E. L. Doctorow constructs a modern&lt;br&gt;Gothic tale of horror in the heart of New York City at the end of the nineteenth&lt;br&gt;century. Adopting Slavoj Žižek’s “parallax view,” this article contends that&lt;br&gt;Dr. Sartorius’s gory, antagonistic obsession to defeat death constructs a nightmarish&lt;br&gt;network of undead spectral “life” that escapes the ontological horizon&lt;br&gt;delineated by the Symbolic and, at the same time, disrupts its social inscription,&lt;br&gt;rendering visible fin de siècle societal antagonisms. The undead non-subjects&lt;br&gt;whose materialization is contingent upon the blood and bone marrow of the children&lt;br&gt;upon which they prey are used in this modern Gothic text as an exemplification&lt;br&gt;of the unspeakable Real that is inscribed into the very fabric of capitalism.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">No.1</style></issue></record></records></xml>