Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: London : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Episodes Before Thirty
Author: Algernon Blackwood
Publisher: London : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher: London : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Journeys into Darkness
Author: James Goho
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442231467
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
The tradition of supernatural horror fiction runs deep in Anglo-American literature. From the Gothic novels of the eighteenth century to such contemporary authors as Stephen King and Anne Rice, writers have employed horror fiction to unearth many disquieting truths about the human condition, ranging from mistreatment of women and minorities to the ever-present dangers of modern city life. In Journeys into Darkness: Critical Essays on Gothic Horror, James Goho analyzes many significant writers and trends in American and British horror fiction. Beginning with Charles Brockden Brown’s disturbing novels of terror and madness, Goho proceeds to discuss the influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” on H. P. Lovecraft, who is treated in several penetrating essays. Lovecraft was a uniquely philosophical writer, and Goho approaches his work through the lens of existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, while also probing Lovecraft’s racism as exhibited in several tales about Native Americans. Goho also discusses the Welsh writer Arthur Machen’s tortured tales of suffering and evil and Algernon Blackwood’s numerous stories set in the wilds of the Canadian backwoods. The book concludes with a centuries-spanning essay on the witchcraft theme in the American Gothic tradition and a comprehensive essay on Fritz Leiber’s invention of the urban Gothic. In this wide-ranging study, James Goho examines the varied ways in which supernatural fiction can address the deepest moral, social, and political concerns of the human experience. Journeys into Darkness will be of interest to readers and scholars of horror fiction and to students of literary history and culture in general.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442231467
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
The tradition of supernatural horror fiction runs deep in Anglo-American literature. From the Gothic novels of the eighteenth century to such contemporary authors as Stephen King and Anne Rice, writers have employed horror fiction to unearth many disquieting truths about the human condition, ranging from mistreatment of women and minorities to the ever-present dangers of modern city life. In Journeys into Darkness: Critical Essays on Gothic Horror, James Goho analyzes many significant writers and trends in American and British horror fiction. Beginning with Charles Brockden Brown’s disturbing novels of terror and madness, Goho proceeds to discuss the influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” on H. P. Lovecraft, who is treated in several penetrating essays. Lovecraft was a uniquely philosophical writer, and Goho approaches his work through the lens of existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, while also probing Lovecraft’s racism as exhibited in several tales about Native Americans. Goho also discusses the Welsh writer Arthur Machen’s tortured tales of suffering and evil and Algernon Blackwood’s numerous stories set in the wilds of the Canadian backwoods. The book concludes with a centuries-spanning essay on the witchcraft theme in the American Gothic tradition and a comprehensive essay on Fritz Leiber’s invention of the urban Gothic. In this wide-ranging study, James Goho examines the varied ways in which supernatural fiction can address the deepest moral, social, and political concerns of the human experience. Journeys into Darkness will be of interest to readers and scholars of horror fiction and to students of literary history and culture in general.
Before Modernism Was
Author: G. Gilbert
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230510213
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Before Modernism Was places modernist writing within the texture of modern history. Texts by Woolf, James, Freud, Wyndham Lewis, Stein, Malinowski, and others are read through a range of figures that construct and disrupt modern meaning: the ghost that affects the value of your property; the sulky, graceless adolescent; the Pole who may not be Polish; the nervous owner of the dog; the addict and her smoke. Eccentric to its institutions, these figures are central to the constituency of modernism.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230510213
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Before Modernism Was places modernist writing within the texture of modern history. Texts by Woolf, James, Freud, Wyndham Lewis, Stein, Malinowski, and others are read through a range of figures that construct and disrupt modern meaning: the ghost that affects the value of your property; the sulky, graceless adolescent; the Pole who may not be Polish; the nervous owner of the dog; the addict and her smoke. Eccentric to its institutions, these figures are central to the constituency of modernism.
A.L.A. Booklist
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Author: Eugene Benson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134468474
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2713
Book Description
Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134468474
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 2713
Book Description
Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Saturday Review of Literature
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
A.L.A. Catalog, 1926
Author: Isabella Mitchell Cooper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description