Horror as pleasure : the aesthetics of horror fiction /
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Author / Creator: | Leffler, Yvonne. |
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Imprint: | Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, c2000. |
Description: | 302 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Horror tales -- History and criticism. Horror in literature. Horror films -- History and criticism. Horror films. Horror in literature. Horror tales. Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4525147 |
Table of Contents:
- Horror as genre: the concept and its problems
- The horror story as an audience-orientated genre concept
- The presentation of the study
- Horror Fiction: A Historical Survey
- Early horror fiction
- Nineteenth-century horror figures and their reappearance
- Two twentieth century and the horror film
- The mass media horror fiction of the most recent decades
- The Horror Story and Positive Emotional Response
- Mimetic art as intellectual pleasure
- The horror story in the discussion of the sublime
- The horror story and repression
- The entertainment qualities of the horror story
- The Horror Story and the Structure of Mystery
- The forward-pointing narrative technique
- The mystery structure of the horror story
- Mystery and order of narrative in the horror story
- Narration and the narrated story
- Focalisation and what is seen
- Depicting the Terrifying and Unknown
- The external depiction of the monster
- The contradictory nature of the monster
- The protagonist's confrontation with the menace
- The monster as reflection of an inner state
- The Horror Story and Emotive Narrative Technique
- Identification and empathy
- Genre expectations and anticipatory reading
- The anticipation technique and the audience's position
- Alternation between identification and observation
- Fiction and Emotion
- The relationship between fear and its object
- Fiction and emotion
- Fiction as a game of make-believe
- Fiction as conceptualisation
- Fiction as evaluative belief and conceptualisation
- The relationship between emotion and object
- The Horror Story and Audience Fright Reactions
- Fiction as evaluation and mental image
- The horror story in the aesthetic debate
- Fear and anxiety
- Fictional fear and its object
- Forward-looking, genre-governed emotional involvement
- Emotions and fictional emotions
- The Horror Story as Aesthetic Pleasure
- General aesthetic conditions
- The well-known genre form
- The enjoyable role-play.