Elegant Nightmares
| Author | : Jack Sullivan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
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Elegant Nightmares
| Author | : Jack Sullivan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1978 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
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Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters
| Author | : John Langan |
| Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Horror tales |
| ISBN | : 0809572494 |
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From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for him by his late father and is initiated into a family story of monstrous deeds. A student learns frightening lessons in a surreal tutoring center. A young couple struggles to make their stand against a group of inhuman pursuers in a ravaged landscape. And, in a new story, an artist discovers a mysterious statue whose completion becomes his obsession.
Bewilderments of Vision
| Author | : Oliver Tearle |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2014-06-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 183764179X |
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According to Oscar Wilde, 'the primary aim of the critic is to see the object as in itself it really is not'. Through a series of close and often unusual readings, this book endeavours to develop Wilde's remark into a detailed and creative theory of reading. It focuses on a series of neologisms from writing of the period.
Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction
| Author | : Alice Bennett |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2012-07-06 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137022698 |
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Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones .
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Novel
| Author | : Tom Monteleone |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1592571727 |
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The trick for most first-time novelists is How do I tell my story? Well, look no further. In a reader-friendly, easy-to-understand style, CIG to Writing a Novel will cover in detail all of the elements necessary to create a great novel. Author Tom Monteleone illustrates how to create three-dimensional characters, write believable and colourful dialogue, pace the story, write effective transitions, and nail down the often tricky process of shifting points of view. He'll also explore such crucial concepts as style, structure, creating a setting, rewriting, and common mistakes first-time novelists make. He'll guide readers through the research process, distinguish between the many different genres of fiction to help them gear their work toward the best audience, and offer suggestions for time management and discipline - necessary tools for the would-be Courtenay in all of us.
The Forest and the EcoGothic
| Author | : Elizabeth Parker |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2020-02-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 3030351548 |
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This book offers the first full length study on the pervasive archetype of The Gothic Forest in Western culture. The idea of the forest as deep, dark, and dangerous has an extensive history and continues to resonate throughout contemporary popular culture. The Forest and the EcoGothic examines both why we fear the forest and how exactly these fears manifest in our stories. It draws on and furthers the nascent field of the ecoGothic, which seeks to explore the intersections between ecocriticism and Gothic studies. In the age of the Anthropocene, this work importantly interrogates our relationship to and understandings of the more-than-human world. This work introduces the trope of the Gothic forest, as well as important critical contexts for its discussion, and examines the three main ways in which this trope manifests: as a living, animated threat; as a traditional habitat for monsters; and as a dangerous site for human settlement. This book will appeal to students and scholars with interests in horror and the Gothic, ecohorror and the ecoGothic, environmentalism, ecocriticism, and popular culture more broadly. The accessibility of the subject of ‘The Deep Dark Woods’, coupled with increasingly mainstream interests in interactions between humanity and nature, means this work will also be of keen interest to the general public.
Spider in a Tree
| Author | : Susan Stinson |
| Publisher | : Small Beer Press |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2013-09-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1618730703 |
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Jonathan Edwards compared a person dangling a spider over a hearth to God holding a sinner over hellfire in his most famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Here, spiders and insects preach back. No voice, no matter how mighty, drowns all others. Grace, human failings, and extraordinary convictions combine unexpectedly in this New England tale.
Horror Literature through History [2 volumes]
| Author | : Matt Cardin |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 1065 |
| Release | : 2017-09-21 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1440842027 |
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This two-volume set offers comprehensive coverage of horror literature that spans its deep history, dominant themes, significant works, and major authors, such as Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Anne Rice, as well as lesser-known horror writers. Many of today's horror story fans—who appreciate horror through movies, television, video games, graphic novels, and other forms—probably don't realize that horror literature is not only one of the most popular types of literature but one of the oldest. People have always been mesmerized by stories that speak to their deepest fears. Horror Literature through History shows 21st-century horror fans the literary sources of their favorite entertainment and the rich intrinsic value of horror literature in its own right. Through profiles of major authors, critical analyses of important works, and overview essays focused on horror during particular periods as well as on related issues such as religion, apocalypticism, social criticism, and gender, readers will discover the fascinating early roots and evolution of horror writings as well as the reciprocal influence of horror literature and horror cinema. This unique two-volume reference set provides wide coverage that is current and compelling to modern readers—who are of course also eager consumers of entertainment. In the first section, overview essays on horror during different historical periods situate works of horror literature within the social, cultural, historical, and intellectual currents of their respective eras, creating a seamless narrative of the genre's evolution from ancient times to the present. The second section demonstrates how otherwise unrelated works of horror have influenced each other, how horror subgenres have evolved, and how a broad range of topics within horror—such as ghosts, vampires, religion, and gender roles—have been handled across time. The set also provides alphabetically arranged reference entries on authors, works, and specialized topics that enable readers to zero in on information and concepts presented in the other sections.
Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel
| Author | : Yvonne Liebermann |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2021-09-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3030794423 |
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This book offers an overview on the growing field of nonhuman studies in relation to Anglophone novels. It illuminates the variety of nonhuman actors that take centre stage in the twenty-first-century novel and the formal changes that the Anthropocene, the digital turn, the animal rights movement, and research into plant consciousness have brought to the novel as a form. The book is divided into four sections, each focusing on a different aspect of twenty-first-century literature that engages with the nonhuman. The collection investigates how the environmental changes and the increasing use of AI technologies have fostered the flourishing of genres like the New Weird, Climate Fiction, and speculative fiction, how it makes us embrace new perceptions of life in relation to genetic engineering, and how it forces us to engage with newly emerging political contexts.
