By the end of the 1990s, the Gothic had pretty well run its course as a dominant theme, first in literature and then in popular film, giving way to "candy gothic" themes such as the current
teen vampire craze. Beville asserts that the "Gothic" still represents an undercurrent in much literature considered part of the postmodern school, as recent themes involving the lingering
emotion of terror, self irony, and the philosophical and psychological consequences of terror are akin to the terror in early gothic works. These themes form an intrinsic link between the
Gothic and the postmodern in literary and cultural terms and she explores that enduring presence by proposing a theoretical approach to postmodernist texts. In part 2 of the book she
illustrates three models using the novels The Satanic Verses, The Master and Margarita, and Lunar Park. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
