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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Horror Fiction in the 20th Century
Trade ReviewHorror Fiction in the 20th Century is both an educational and informational resource that is thoroughly researched and inclusive of the genre in all its forms. Perhaps even more valuable, it serves as an indispensable resource for your next thrilling horror read. * Kirkus Reviews *At long last, the horror genre has been mapped. Those who wish to explore its dark forests, haunted cities and cursed monuments will now have the perfect starting point. * Women Write About Comics *Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Why Write About Horror? What Is Horror Fiction? American and British Horror Literature Before the Twentieth Century International Horror Part One 1901–1939, The Golden Age Chapter 1 British Writers The "Classical" Tradition(s) The Machen Quartet Breaks with Tradition Naturalism and the Psychological Ghost Story Traditionalists and Holdovers New Voices The War Years Voices of the Twenties The End of the Golden Age Chapter 2 American Writers The Great Age of the American Ghost Story East Coast versus West Coast The East Coast School Sexism and Great Age Content East Coast Membership The West Coast School Exceptions After Weird Tales' Debut Chapter 3 Horror in the Pulps Before Weird Tales Weird Tales H. P. Lovecraft The Weird Tales Crew What Lovecraft and Weird Tales Wrought, and What They Did Not Outside of Weird Tales The Shudder Pulps The End of Weird Tales' Golden Age Chapter 4 Horror in the Mainstream The Creation of the Mainstream Before the Great War America England After the War Chapter 5 Outside the Anglosphere, 1901–1939 Africa (Angola, Lesotho, Nigeria, South Africa) The Americas (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela) Asia (India, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines) Europe (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia and the Soviet Union, Spain) The Middle East (Egypt, Iran, Turkey) Part Two 1940–1970, Midcentury Frights Chapter 6 American Writers Ray Bradbury Robert Bloch Richard Matheson Charles Beaumont The Group Fritz Leiber Midcentury Writers of Horror One-Shots Chapter 7 British Writers The Changing Landscape The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s Chapter 8 Horror in the Mainstream The Effects of the War American Writers Writers of the United Kingdom Chapter 9 Horror on the Cheap Pulps and Digests Paperbacks Comics Chapter 10 Outside the Anglosphere, 1940–1970 Africa (Angola, Congo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa) The Americas (Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela) Asia (India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines) Europe (Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain) The Middle East (Israel, Syria, Turkey) Part Three 1971–2000, The Boom Years Chapter 11 Horror as Big Business American Best Sellers The British Response In the Mainstream Chapter 12 The Boom and Bust of the 1980s and 1990s Full-Timers Part-Timers, Tourists, and Dabblers RPG Fiction Chapter 13 Short-Fiction Authors, 1971–2000 From Before the Boom The 1970s Generation The 1980s Generation The 1990s Generation Chapter 14 Horror for Children and Young Adults 1900–1960 The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s Chapter 15 Outsiders Writing Horror African American Writers Australian Aboriginal Writers Latinx Horror Native American Horror Queer Horror Chapter 16 Outside the Anglosphere, 1971–2000 Africa (Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Mauritania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa) The Americas (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Québec, Venezuela) Asia (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand) Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland) The Middle East (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Turkey) Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Authorships Wake
Trade ReviewAuthorship’s Wake animates a new path for exploring the enduring legacy of the “authorship debates.” This lively and original book not only brilliantly elucidates the political stakes of proclaiming the “death of the author,” but also uses these insights to form novel and compelling arguments regarding a range of contemporary phenomena from campus speech debates to man-splaining. What the sole author leaves in his wake, we come to learn, are nothing less than the seeds for cultivating vital new practices of affect, agency, and collectivity. * Jennifer Friedlander, Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies, Pomona College, USA *Inventive. Inspiring. Important. A passionate defense of the emancipatory post-war writing daring to stretch beyond authorship and the fiction/theory binary; a celebration, in the wake of Roland Barthes, of the wildly critical visions of such writers as Teju Cole, Chris Kraus, Maggie Nelson, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace; and an invitation to form a new kind of study group with them all as we take on this startlingly strange and yet terrifyingly familiar 21st century. * Alice Jardine, Professor, Harvard University, USA, and author of At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva (Bloomsbury, 2020) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Words Streaming in Your Wake” 1. Communication: Maggie Nelson and the Literary Text as Letter 2. Intention: The Inconsistent Anti-Intentionalism of Zadie Smith and Judith Butler 3. Agency: Roland Barthes and the Men Who Hold Forth 4. Labor: David Foster Wallace, Cowboy of Information Conclusion: Study Groups Bibliography Index
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de Gruyter The Medieval North and Its Afterlife
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Xlibris The University a Place of Slavery: A Glimpse into the Role of the Academia in the Capitalist Order
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain
Book SynopsisVolume offering a guide to and reassessment of Thomas Mann's famous novel. Thomas Mann was the first writer since Goethe to attract a large international audience to stories written in German, bringing German fiction into the mainstream of European literature. His second major work, The Magic Mountain (1924), explores the heady intellectual culture of the chaotic and broken Germany that emerged from the First World War, and, along with the earlier Buddenbrooks, earned him a Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. Mann himself considered The Magic Mountain to be his greatest novel, and few in his own day doubted the preeminence of this modernist classic; however, many have argued that the age of literary modernism has passed. If this is so, how might we best understand Mann's masterpiece now? Topics covered in this volume, which aims to provide both a survey of and new research into important aspects of the work, include Mann's comic vision, his homosexuality, his fraught attitude toward Jews, the place of his novel in the landscape of postmodern life, the theme of solitude, music in the novel, and technology. Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German at Brandeis University. Contributors: David Blumberg, Michael Brenner, Stephen Dowden, Edward Engelberg, Ulker Gökberk, Eugene Goodheart, Joseph P. Lawrence, Karla Schultz, Susan Sontag, Kenneth Weisinger. Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German at Brandeis University.Trade ReviewBringing together a variety of approaches to the novel, this volume adds significantly to the literature available.... * CHOICE *Magisterial ruminations by prominent American academics who supply much intellectual and imaginative verve and insight. * FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *This collection represents a stimulating companion indeed to the Magic Mountain. * MONATSHEFTE *[The work] succeeds by offering a range of both familiar and innovative approaches to Mann's text, surprising even the experienced reader of Mann's novel with sometimes unexpected vistas. * COLLOQUIA GERMANICA *Table of ContentsTransfiguration in Silence: Hans Castorp's Uncanny Awakening - Joseph Lawrence Mann's Ethical Style - Stephen D. Dowden Thomas Mann's Comic Spirit - Eugene Goodheart War as Mentor: Thomas Mann and Germanness - Ulker Gokberk From Muted Chords to Maddening Cacophony: Music in The Magic Mountain - David Blumberg Ambiguous Solitude: Hans Castorp's Sturm und Drang nach Osten - Edward Engelberg Mortal Illness on the Magic Mountain - Stephen Meredith - MD Beyond Naptha: Thomas Mann's Jews and German-Jewish Writing - Michael Brenner Technology as Desire: X-Ray Vision in The Magic Mountain - Karla L. Schultz Distant Oil Rigs and Other Erections - Kenneth Weisinger Pilgrimage - Susan Sontag
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to the Works of Thomas Mann
Book SynopsisSixteen new, carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of the great writers of modernity. Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Doktor Faustus attest to his mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as Death in Venice reveal him at the height of his mastery of language. In addition to fresh insights about these best-known works of Mann, this volume treats less-often-discussed works such as Joseph and His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, and Felix Krull, as well as his political writings and essays. Mann himself was a paradox: his role as family-father was both refuge and façade; his love of Germany was matched by his contempt for its having embraced Hitler. While in exile during the Nazi period, he functioned as the prime representative of the "good" Germany in the fight against fascism, and he has often been remembered this way in English-speaking lands. But a new view of Mann is emerging half a century after his death: a view of him as one of the great writers of a modernity understood as extending into our 21st century. This volume provides sixteen essays by American and European specialists. They demonstrate the relevance of his writings for our time, making particular use of the biographical material that is now available. Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Manfred Dierks, Werner Frizen, Clayton Koelb, Helmut Koopmann, Wolfgang Lederer, Hannelore Mundt, Peter Pütz, Jens Rieckmann, Hans Joachim Sandberg, Egon Schwarz, and Hans Vaget. Herbert Lehnert is Research Professor, and Eva Wessell is Lecturer in Humanities, both at the University of California, Irvine.Trade ReviewLehnert and Wessell, themselves accomplished Mann scholars, assembled a stellar team of specialists from three countries for this collection...offers a wealth of insights. Essential. * CHOICE *[The book gives] reliable and readable accounts of Mann's works. It also introduces readers to current scholarship on those works. It thus accomplishes exactly what it is meant to do. It does so, moreover, in admirable breadth and depth. * MONATSHEFTE *This collection of essays forms part of a Camden House series in which 27 volumes have appeared since 1999 and which will eventually provide a panorama of the accepted peaks of German and Austrian literature from Hartmann von Aue to Thomas Bernhard and beyond. Almost without exception, the contributions provide good, general introductions to the texts under discussion and new insights for the specialist, or both. * MLR *Together with familiar facts well known to the reader of Thomas Mann one also finds quite original insights.... This work is of such richness that it would be useful translated into German to make it available to a larger public. * ETUDES GERMANIQUES *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Companion to the Works of Heinrich von Kleist
Book SynopsisNew essays on the most prominent German dramatist and short-story writer of the early 19th century. For over 150 years, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) has been one of the most widely read and performed German authors. His status in the literary canon is firmly established, but he has always been one of Germany's most contentiously discussed authors. Today's critical debate on his unique prose narratives and dramas is as heated as ever. Many critics regard Kleist as a lone presager of the aesthetics and philosophies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century modernism. Yet there can be no question that he responds in his works and letters to the philosophical, aesthetic, and political debates of his time. During the last thirty years, the scholarship on Kleist's work and life has departed from the existentialist wave of the 1950s and early 1960s and opened up new avenues for coming to terms with his unusual talent. The present volume brings together the most important and innovative of these newer scholarly approaches: the essays include critically informed, up-to-date interpretations of Kleist's most-discussed stories and dramas. Other contributions analyze Kleist's literary means and styles and their theoretical underpinnings. They include articles on Kleist's narrative and theatrical technique, poetic and aesthetic theory, philosophical and political thought, and insights from new biographical research. Contributors: Jeffrey L. Sammons,Jost Hermand, Anthony Stephens, Bianca Theisen, Hinrich C. Seeba, Bernhard Greiner, Helmut J. Schneider, Tim Mehigan, Susanne Zantop, Hilda M. Brown, and Seán Allan. Bernd Fischer is Professor of German and Head of theDepartment of German at Ohio State University.Trade ReviewThis volume... succeeds in providing insight into the rich complexity of Kleist's writings and ... bears testimony to the continued relevance of his oeuvre today. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *This volume is a stimulating study that contains much that will arouse the reader's interest and that promises to pave the way for further exciting probes into Kleist's remarkable contemporary oeuvre. * SEMINAR *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Heinrich von Kleist's Life and Work - Bernd Fischer Jupiterists and Alkemists: Amphitryon as an Example of How Kleist's Texts Read Interpreters - Jeffery L. Sammons Kleist's Penthesilea: Battleground of Gendered Discourses - Jost Hermand On Structures in Kleist - Anthony Stephens--til 7/03 Strange News: Kleist's Novellas - Bianca Theisen The Eye of the Beholder: Kleist's Visual Poetics of Knowledge - Hinrich C. Seeba The Performative Turn of the Beautiful: "Free Play" of Language and the "Unspeakable Person" - Bernhard Greiner The Facts of Life: Kleist's Challenge to Enlightenment Humanism (Lessing) - Helmut J. Schneider "Betwixt a false reason and none at all": Kleist, Hume, Kant, and the "Thing in Itself" - Tim Mehigan Changing Color: Kleist's "Die Verlobung in St. Domingo" and the Discourses of Miscegenation - Susanne Zantop-Deceased Ripe Moments and False Climaxes: Thematic and Dramatic Configurations of the Theme of Death in Kleist's Works - "Mein ist die Rache spricht der Herr": Violence and Revenge in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist - Sean Allan
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