The Supernatural and Fantastic in Short Detective Fiction: A Survey, 1841-2000, Laird R. Blackwell
Автор: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Название: Faust, A Tragedy, Part I ISBN: 1684481430 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781684481439 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 36030.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Goethe is the most famous German author, and the poetic drama Faust, Part I (1808) is his best-known work. Eugene Stelzig`s new translation renders the text of the play in clear and crisp English for a contemporary audience and brings to light Faust`s almost inexhaustible, mysterious, and enchanting poetic and cultural power.
Автор: Schmitz Rahel Sixta Название: The Supernatural Media Virus: Virus Anxiety in Gothic Fiction Since 1990 ISBN: 3837655598 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783837655599 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 50580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Since the 1990s, the virus and the network metaphors have become increasingly popular, finding application in a broad range of everyday discourses, academic disciplines, and fiction genres. In this book, Rahel Sixta Schmitz defines and discusses a trope recurring in Gothic fiction: the supernatural media virus. This trope comprises the confluence of the virus, the network, and a deep, underlying media anxiety. This study shows how Gothic narratives such as House of Leaves or The Ring feature the supernatural media virus to negotiate as well as actively shape imaginations of the network society and the dangers of a globalized, technologized world.
Автор: Victoria Margree Название: British Women`s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860–1930 ISBN: 3030271412 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030271411 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 65210.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores women’s short supernatural fiction between the emergence of first wave feminism and the post-suffrage period, arguing that while literary ghosts enabled an interrogation of women’s changing circumstances, ghosts could have both subversive and conservative implications. Haunted house narratives by Charlotte Riddell and Margaret Oliphant become troubled by uncanny reminders of the origins of middle-class wealth in domestic and foreign exploitation. Corpse-like revenants are deployed in Female Gothic tales by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Edith Nesbit to interrogate masculine aestheticisation of female death. In the culturally-hybrid supernaturalism of Alice Perrin, the ‘Marriage Question’ migrates to colonial India, and psychoanalytically-informed stories by May Sinclair, Eleanor Scott and Violet Hunt explore just how far gender relations have really progressed in the post-First World War period. Study of the woman’s short story productively problematises literary histories about the “golden age” of the ghost story, and about the transition from Victorianism to modernism.
Автор: Margree Victoria Название: British Women`s Short Supernatural Fiction, 1860-1930: Our Own Ghostliness ISBN: 3030271447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030271442 Издательство: Springer Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores women`s short supernatural fiction between the emergence of first wave feminism and the post-suffrage period, arguing that while literary ghosts enabled an interrogation of women`s changing circumstances, ghosts could have both subversive and conservative implications.
Автор: Fido Martin Название: The World of Sherlock Holmes: The Facts and Fiction Behind the World`s Greatest Detective ISBN: 1787391361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787391369 Издательство: Carlton Books Рейтинг: Цена: 14770.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Enter the world of Sherlock Holmes, history's most beloved detective, and explore the reality behind the myth.
The World of Sherlock Holmes delves into the fictional detective's storied history to uncover the myths and reality of the era when Holmes emerged--a time of great advances in crime analysis, medicine, and technology, when Scotland Yard was the king of criminal detection. Along with background on Holmes's origin, fans can explore the various portrayals of the deerstalker detective through the years, concluding with BBC's Sherlock;Elementary, which controversially cast a female Watson; and the action-packed Sherlock Holmes films directed by Guy Ritchie.
Автор: Harris Название: Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction ISBN: 1138259543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138259546 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 58170.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.
Название: Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction ISBN: 0367210940 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367210946 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Centred around diverse interpretations of the Elliott Family stories, this collection of critical essays recovers the Elliotts for academic purposes by exploring how they form a collective gothic mythos while ranging across distinct themes.
Автор: Alison Bedford Название: In Frankenstein`s Wake: Mary Shelley, Morality and Science Fiction ISBN: 1476677808 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476677804 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 56370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Offers a new perspective on Mary Shelley and on science fiction, arguing that Shelley both established a new discursive space for moral thinking and laid the groundwork for the genre of science fiction.
Автор: Bacon, Simon Название: Becoming vampire ISBN: 3034319908 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034319904 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 95000.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first century has been used to create and define difference, not as either a positive or negative attribute, but as a catalyst for change and the exploration of new identity positions. Whilst focusing on the films Let Me In and Let the Right One In to highlight the referential and intertextual nature of the genre itself, it utilises a broad spectrum of methodological approaches to show how the many facets of the vampire can destabilise traditional categories of who we are and what we might become. This volume then provides a timely examination of the multifaceted and multivalent character of the vampire and the possibilities inherent within our interactions with them, making this study a consideration of what we might term ‘vampiric becomings’ and an exploration of why the undead ‘creatures of the night’ remain so fascinating to Western culture.
Автор: Joshi S. T. Название: Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 2 ISBN: 1614980918 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781614980919 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 30650.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this second volume of S. T. Joshi's landmark history of supernatural fiction, the initial focus is on an incredible efflorescence of weird writing at the turn of the twentieth century-a period that many scholars have referred to as the Golden Age of weird fiction. Such figures as Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M. R. James, and H. P. Lovecraft elevated weird fiction to a level of high artistry never seen before, and their work continues to inspire writers up to the present day. Other authors such as Walter de la Mare, L. P. Hartley, and William Hope Hodgson also contributed important novels and tales. Lovecraft's influence extended to such of his contemporaries and successors as Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Robert Bloch, and Fritz Leiber. In the years following Lovecraft's death, a new crop of writers-led by Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Shirley Jackson, and Charles Beaumont-brought horror down to earth and into the realm of ordinary life. Their work laid the groundwork for the extraordinary emergence of weird fiction as a best-selling phenomenon in the work of Ira Levin, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Anne Rice, and many others. At the same time, more literate figures such as Ramsey Campbell, T. E. D. Klein, and Thomas Ligotti continued to expand the boundaries of the weird in work of the highest literary polish. Today, such writers as Caitl n R. Kiernan, Dennis Etchison, and many others continue to probe new directions in weird fiction.
The celebrated writer M. R. James (1862-1936) is the most significant author of ghost stories in the world. His macabre work has terrified and fascinated readers for over 100 years. Now collected in one volume, 29 essays on his ghostly tales and themes by editor and James scholar Rosemary Pardoe
Plus a further eight essays on other authors, including Fritz Leiber, Arthur Machen, E. G. Swain and Many Wade Wellman and a fascinating miscellany of nine additional pieces on a variety of topics.
Rosemary Pardoe is the esteemed essayist and editor of the famed M. R. James related Ghosts & Scholars magazine, which she has edited since 1979. She is the co-editor (with Richard Dalby) of Ghosts And Scholars: Stories in the Tradition of M. R. James (1987), and three volumes of The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows (Sarob Press). She is the co-editor and has contributed to Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James, edited with S. T. Joshi.
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