New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft 1st Edition

New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature The Critical Influence of H. P. Lovecraft 1st Edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319954769,9783319954776,3319954768,3319954776

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319954776
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783319954776
• Author: Sean Moreland

Table contents:

1. Introduction: The Critical (After)Life of Supernatural Horror in Literature

Section I. “The Oldest and Strongest Emotion”: The Psychology of Cosmic Horror

2. The Birth of Cosmic Horror from the S(ub)lime of Lucretius

3. The Evolution of Horror: A Neo-Lovecraftian Poetics

4. Ansky’s The Dybbuk, Freud’s Future of an Illusion, Watson’s “Little Albert,” and Supernatural Horror in Literature

5. Gazing Upon “The Daemons of Unplumbed Space” with H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King: Theorizing Horror and Cosmic Terror

Section II. “A Literature of Cosmic Fear”: Lovecraft, Criticism, and Literary History

6. “Lothly Thinges Thai Weren Alle”: Imagining Horror in the Late Middle Ages

7. Lovecraft’s Debt to Dandyism

8. Lovecraft and the Titans: A Critical Legacy

9. Reception Claims in Supernatural Horror in Literature and the Course of Weird Fiction

Section III. “The True Weird”: (Re)Defining the Weird

10. Bizarre Epistemology, Bizarre Subject: A Definition of Weird Fiction

11. Speaking the Unspeakable: Women, Sex, and the Dismorphmythic in Lovecraft, Angela Carter, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Beyond

12. Weird Cinema and the Aesthetics of Dread

13. Paranoia, Panic, and the Queer Weird

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