The weird and the eerie / Mark Fisher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Mark, 1968-2017, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Horror in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

133 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

A Repeater Books paperback original.

Distribution:

New York : Distributed in the United States by Random House, Inc.

Place of Publication:

London : Repeater Books, 2016.

Summary:

"What exactly are the 'weird' and the 'eerie'? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The 'weird' and the 'eerie' are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. The 'weird' and the 'eerie' both fundamentally concern the outside and the unknown, which are not intrinsically horrifying, even if they are always unsettling. Perhaps a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of liminal concepts such as the 'weird' and the 'eerie'. These two modes will be analysed with reference to the work of authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, M.R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christoper Nolan." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Introduction : the weird and the eerie (beyond unheimlich)

The weird. The out of place and the out of time: lovecraft and the weird

The weird against the worldly: H.G. Wells

"Body a tentacle mess": the grotesque and the weird: The Fall

Caught in the coils of ouroboros: Tim Powers

Simulations and the unworlding: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Philip K. Dick

Curtains and holes: David Lynch

The eerie. Approaching the eerie

Something where there should be nothing: nothing where there should be something: Daphne du Maurier and Christopher Priest

On vanishing land: M.R. James and Eno

Eerie Thanatos: Nigel Kneale and Alan Garner

Inside out: outside in: Margaret Atwood and Jonathan Glazer

Alien traces: Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Christopher Nolan

"...The eerieness remains": Joan Lindsay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132), discography (page 132) and videography (pages 133-134).

ISBN:

9781910924389

1910924385

OCLC:

945719244

Publisher Number:

99975102270