The Palgrave handbook to horror literature / Kevin Corstorphine, Laura R. Kremmel, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corstorphine, Kevin, editor.

Kremmel, Laura R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror tales--History and criticism.

Horror tales.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xx, 534 pages ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Handbook to horror literature

Horror literature

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

"This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in horror, and ways of understanding horror through literary and cultural theory, the text analyses why horror is so compelling, and how we should interpret its presence in literature. Chapters explore historical horror aspects including ancient mythology, medieval writing, drama, chapbooks, the Gothic novel, and literary Modernism and trace themes such as vampires, children and animals in horror, deep dark forests, labyrinths, disability, and imperialism. Considering horror via postmodern theory, evolutionary psychology, postcolonial theory, and New Materialism, this handbook investigates issues of gender and sexuality, race, censorship and morality, environmental studies, and literary versus popular fiction"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Kevin Corstorphine

The Origins and Evolution of Literary Horror. Bhayānaka (horror and the horrific) in Indian aesthetics / Dhananjay Singh

Horror in the medieval north : the troll / Ármann Jakobsson

The horror genre and aspects of Native American Indian literature / Joy Porter

Vampires, shape-shifters, and sinister light : mistranslating Australian aboriginal horror in theory and literary practice / Naomi Simone Borwein

Men, women, and landscape in American horror fiction / Dara Downey

Blood flows freely : the horror of classic fairy tales / Lorna Piatti-Farnell

Turning dark pages and transacting with the inner self : adolescents' perspectives of reading horror texts / Phil Fitzsimmons

Horror and damnation in medieval literature / Andrew J. Power

The Jacobean theater of horror / Tony Perrello

"A mass of unnatural and repulsive horrors" : staging horror in nineteenth-century English theater / Sarah A. Winter

Horror in gothic chapbooks / Franz J. Potter

"We stare and tremble" : eighteenth- and nineteenth-century horror novels / Natalie Neill

"The horror! The horror!" : tracing horror in modernism from Conrad to Eliot / Matthias Stephan

Global horror : pale horse, pale rider / David Punter

Themes of Literary Horror. Vampires : reflections in a dark mirror / Wendy Fall

Zombie fictions / Anya Heise-von der Lippe

"You don't think I'm like any other boy. That's why you're afraid" : haunted/haunting children from The Turn of the Screw to Tales of Terror / Chloé Germaine Buckley

Discussing dolls : horror and the human double / Sandra Mills

"They have risen once : they may rise again" : animals in horror literature / Bernice M. Murphy

Who's afraid of the big bad woods? : deep dark forests and literary horror / Elizabeth Parker

Disability and horror / Alan Gregory

Monstrous machines and devilish devices / Gwyneth Peaty

"And send her well-dos'd to the grave" : literary medical horror / Laura R. Kremmel

Imperial horror and terrorism / Johan Höglund

Postmodern literary labyrinths : spaces of horror reimagined / Katharine Coz

Approaches to Literary Horror. Evolutionary study of horror literature / Mathias Clasen

Transgressive horror and politics : the splatterpunks and extreme horror / Aalya Ahmad

Boundary crossing and cultural creation : transgressive horror and politics of the 1990s / Coco d'Hont

"Maggot maladies" : origins of horror as a culturally proscribed entertainment / Sarah Cleary

The mother of all horrors: Medea's infanticide in African American literature / Christina Dokou

Horror, race, and reality / Ordner W. Taylor III

Postcolonial horror / Tabish Khair

Conceptualizing varieties of space in horror fiction / Andrew Hock Soon Ng

Toward an acoustics of literary horror / Matt Foley

Hesitation marks : the fantastic and the satirical in postmodern horror / Laura Findlay

"It's alive!" new materialism and literary horror / Susan Yi Sencindiver

Horror "after theory" / Lyle Enright.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319974057

331997405X

OCLC:

1050752458

Publisher Number:

99983585117