Horror literature from Gothic to post-modern :: critical essays /
"From shambling zombies to Gothic ghosts, horror has entertained thrill-seeking readers for centuries. A versatile literary genre, it offers commentary on societal issues, fresh insight into the everyday and moral tales disguised in haunting tropes and grotesque acts, with many stories worthy o...
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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2020]
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| Zusammenfassung: | "From shambling zombies to Gothic ghosts, horror has entertained thrill-seeking readers for centuries. A versatile literary genre, it offers commentary on societal issues, fresh insight into the everyday and moral tales disguised in haunting tropes and grotesque acts, with many stories worthy of critical appraisal. This collection of new essays takes in a range of topics, focusing on historic works such as Ann Radcliffe's Gaston de Blondeville (1826) and modern novels including Max Brooks' World War Z. Other contributions examine weird fiction, Stephen King, Richard Laymon, Indigenous Australian monster mythology and horror in picture books for young children"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781476637914 1476637911 |
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| spelling | Horror literature from Gothic to post-modern : critical essays / edited by Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak ; foreword by Lisa Morton ; afterword by Becky Spratford Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020] ©2020 1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier "From shambling zombies to Gothic ghosts, horror has entertained thrill-seeking readers for centuries. A versatile literary genre, it offers commentary on societal issues, fresh insight into the everyday and moral tales disguised in haunting tropes and grotesque acts, with many stories worthy of critical appraisal. This collection of new essays takes in a range of topics, focusing on historic works such as Ann Radcliffe's Gaston de Blondeville (1826) and modern novels including Max Brooks' World War Z. Other contributions examine weird fiction, Stephen King, Richard Laymon, Indigenous Australian monster mythology and horror in picture books for young children"-- Provided by publisher Includes bibliographical references and index "The mist of death is on me" : Ann Radcliffe's unexplained supernatural in Gaston de Blondeville / Elizabeth Bobbitt -- Jekyll and Hyde everywhere : inconsistency and disparity in the real world / Erica McCrystal -- Scattergories : class upheaval, social chaos and the horrors of category crisis in World war Z / J. Rocky Colavito -- Marjorie Bowen and the third fury / John C. Tibbetts -- "When the cage came up there was something crouched a-top of it" : the haunted tale of L.T.C. Rolt / Danny Rhodes -- Richard Laymon's rhetorical style : minimalism, suspense and negative space / Gavin F. Hurley -- Four quadrants of success : the metalinguistics of author protagonists in the fiction of Stephen King / James Arthur Anderson -- "The symptoms of possession" : gender, power and trauma in late 20th century horror novels / Bridget E. Keown -- "Not a bedtime story" : investigating textual interactions between the horror genre and children's picture books / Emily Anctil -- Synchronic horror and the dreaming : a theory of aboriginal australian horror and monstrosity / Naomi Simone Borwein -- "Gelatinous green immensity" : weird fiction and the grotesque sublime / Johnny Murray -- Night of the living dead, or Endgame : Jan Kott, Samuel Beckett and zombies / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- Koji Suzuki's Ring : a world literary perspective / Frazer Lee -- Mapping digital disease : representations of movement and technology in Jim Sonzero's Pulse and Stephen King's Cell / Rahel Sixta Schmitz -- Afterword: Guardians of the damned : horror scholarship and the library / Becky Spratford. Print version record Horror tales History and criticism Congresses. Horror in literature Congresses. Récits d'horreur Histoire et critique Congrès. Horreur dans la littérature Congrès. Horror in literature fast Horror tales fast Conference papers and proceedings fast Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast Brittany, Michele, 1965- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjqxckQpgP7bvHVJ9q4g8C http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014058627 Diak, Nicholas, 1982- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjBFkqJtJmJqwmTP6DrkKq http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018036264 Morton, Lisa, 1958- writer of foreword. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkCXhT8dCYmmHvTHMKw4q http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001024671 Spratford, Becky Siegel, writer of afterword. Horror Writers Association. Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference (1st : 2017 : Long Beach, Calif.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019176651 Horror Writers Association. Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference (2nd : 2018 : Providence, R.I.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2019176564 has work: Horror literature from Gothic to post-modern (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGbYYRpYJ3VRP9yfTRVf4q https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Horror literature from Gothic to post-modern. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020] 9781476674889 1476674884 (DLC) 2019051447 (OCoLC)1110067939 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2373750 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Horror literature from Gothic to post-modern : critical essays / "The mist of death is on me" : Ann Radcliffe's unexplained supernatural in Gaston de Blondeville / Elizabeth Bobbitt -- Jekyll and Hyde everywhere : inconsistency and disparity in the real world / Erica McCrystal -- Scattergories : class upheaval, social chaos and the horrors of category crisis in World war Z / J. Rocky Colavito -- Marjorie Bowen and the third fury / John C. Tibbetts -- "When the cage came up there was something crouched a-top of it" : the haunted tale of L.T.C. Rolt / Danny Rhodes -- Richard Laymon's rhetorical style : minimalism, suspense and negative space / Gavin F. Hurley -- Four quadrants of success : the metalinguistics of author protagonists in the fiction of Stephen King / James Arthur Anderson -- "The symptoms of possession" : gender, power and trauma in late 20th century horror novels / Bridget E. Keown -- "Not a bedtime story" : investigating textual interactions between the horror genre and children's picture books / Emily Anctil -- Synchronic horror and the dreaming : a theory of aboriginal australian horror and monstrosity / Naomi Simone Borwein -- "Gelatinous green immensity" : weird fiction and the grotesque sublime / Johnny Murray -- Night of the living dead, or Endgame : Jan Kott, Samuel Beckett and zombies / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- Koji Suzuki's Ring : a world literary perspective / Frazer Lee -- Mapping digital disease : representations of movement and technology in Jim Sonzero's Pulse and Stephen King's Cell / Rahel Sixta Schmitz -- Afterword: Guardians of the damned : horror scholarship and the library / Becky Spratford. Horror tales History and criticism Congresses. Horror in literature Congresses. Récits d'horreur Histoire et critique Congrès. Horreur dans la littérature Congrès. Horror in literature fast Horror tales fast |
| title | Horror literature from Gothic to post-modern : critical essays / |
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| title_full | Horror literature from Gothic to post-modern : critical essays / edited by Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak ; foreword by Lisa Morton ; afterword by Becky Spratford |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Horror literature from Gothic to post-modern : critical essays / edited by Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak ; foreword by Lisa Morton ; afterword by Becky Spratford |
| title_short | Horror literature from Gothic to post-modern : |
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| topic | Horror tales History and criticism Congresses. Horror in literature Congresses. Récits d'horreur Histoire et critique Congrès. Horreur dans la littérature Congrès. Horror in literature fast Horror tales fast |
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