The biology of horror : Gothic literature and film /
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Author / Creator: | Morgan, Jack, 1939- |
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Imprint: | Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2002. |
Description: | 1 online resource (263 pages) |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Horror tales -- History and criticism. Horror films -- History and criticism. Gothic revival (Literature) TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Gothic revival (Literature) Horror films. Horror tales. Griezelverhalen. Gothic novel. Griezelfilms. Literatura (história e crítica) Terror (gênero) Cinema (história e crítica) Languages & Literatures. Literature - General. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11126224 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- The Biology of Horror
- Introduction The Body is His Book
- 1. Mortal Coils: the Comic-Horror Double Helix
- 2. The Muse of Horror: Traditions of Dreadful Imagining
- 3. Macabre Aesthetics
- 4. The Anxiety of Organism
- 5. Acquaintance with the Night: America and the Muse of Horror
- 6. Dark Carnival: the Esoterics of Celebration
- 7. Languishment: the Wounded Hero
- 8. Sinister Loci: the Properties of Terror
- 9. Apotropaion and the Hideous Obscure
- 10. The Soul at Zero: Dark Epiphanies
- Notes Works Cited Index
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index