The biology of horror : Gothic literature and film /

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Author / Creator:Morgan, Jack, 1939-
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
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ISBN:0585464618
9780585464619
0809324709
9780809324705
0809324717
9780809324712
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index.
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Other form:Print version: Morgan, Jack, 1939- Biology of horror. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2002 0809324709
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