New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Moreland, Sean (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature-Philosophy.; Gothic fiction (Literary genre).; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Literary Theory.; Gothic Fiction.

This collection of essays examines the legacy of H.P. Lovecraft's most important critical work, Supernatural Horror in Literature. Each chapter illuminates a crucial aspect of Lovecraft's criticism, from its aesthetic, philosophical and literary sources, to its psychobiological underpinnin...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: The Critical (After)Life of Supernatural Horror in Literature, Sean Moreland
• 2. The Birth of Cosmic Horror from the S(ub)lime of Lucretius, Sean Moreland
• 3. The Evolution of Horror: A Neo-Lovecraftian Poetics, Mathias Clasen
• 4. Ansky's The Dybbuk, Freud's Future of an Illusion, Watson's Little Albert and Supernatural Horror in Literature, Sharon Packer, MD
• 5. Gazing Upon "The Daemons of Unplumbed Space" with H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King: Theorizing Horror and Cosmic Terror, Alissa Burger
• 6. "Lothly thinges thai weren alle": Imagining Horror in the Late Middle Ages, Helen Marshall
• 7. Lovecraft's Debt to Dandyism, Vivian Ralickas
• 8. Lovecraft and the Titans: A Critical Legacy, S. T. Joshi
• 9. Reception Claims in Supernatural Horror in Literature and the Course of Weird Fiction, John Glover
• 10. Bizarre Epistemology, Bizarre Subject: A Definition of Weird Fiction, Michael Cisco
• 11. Women, Sex and the Dismorphmythic: Lovecraft, Carter, Kiernan and Beyond, Gina Wisker
• 12. Weird Cinema and the Aesthetics of Dread, Brian R. Hauser
• 13. Paranoia, Panic, and the Queer Weird, Brian Johnson.