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Author : Stephen Shapiro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1316513009
Taking Horror seriously, the book surveys America's bloody and haunted history through its most terrifying cultural expressions.
Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494486
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107117143
This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.
Author : Edward James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107493730
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Author : Michael J. Collins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009292854
This Companion offers students and scholars a comprehensive introduction to the development and the diversity of the American short story as a literary form from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day. Rather than define what the short story is as a genre, or defend its importance in comparison with the novel, this Companion seeks to understand what the short story does – how it moves through national space, how it is always related to other genres and media, and how its inherent mobility responds to the literary marketplace and resonates with key critical themes in contemporary literary studies. The chapters offer authoritative introductions and reinterpretations of a literary form that has re-emerged as a major force in the twenty-first-century public sphere dominated by the Internet.
Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521794664
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called Gothic story ) to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between high and popular culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author : J. Michelle Coghlan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1108427367
This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521797276
This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing: humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, and sentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Raven', and 'Ulalume'. The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1107153174
This celebrated Gothic novel is explored through essays providing critical, historical, anthropological, philosophical and intellectual contexts that serve to further the understanding and appreciation of Dracula in all its many guises. Together the essays offer exciting new critical approaches to the most famous vampire in literature and film.
Author : Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2024-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
'No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes' is a multi-author work united by the common theme of critical analysis of the use of horror tropes in literature, film, and even video games. Tackling issues dealing with gender, race, sexuality, social class, religion, politics, disability, and more in horror, the authors are horror scholars hailing from varied backgrounds and areas of specialty. This book may be used as a resource for classes that study horror or simply as entertainment for horror fans; readers will consider diverse perspectives on the tropes themselves as well as their representation in specific works.