Fear and Nature : Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene /

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Ecohorror represents human fears about the natural world-killer plants and animals, catastrophic weather events, and disquieting encounters with the nonhuman. Its portrayals of animals, the environment, and even scientists build on popular conceptions of zoology, ecology, and the scientific process....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Angierski, Kristen (Contribuidor), Barclay, Bridgitte (Contribuidor), Cortez, Marisol (Contribuidor), Davis, Chelsea (Contribuidor), Heumann, Joseph K. (Contribuidor), Keetley, Dawn (Contribuidor), Kniss, Ashley (Contribuidor), Murray, Robin L. (Contribuidor), Roberts, Brittany R. (Contribuidor), Sharp, Sharon (Contribuidor), Soles, Carter (Contribuidor, Editor ), Stevenson, Keri (Contribuidor), Tidwell, Christy (Contribuidor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
Colección:AnthropoScene: The SLSA Book Series ; 8
Temas:
Ecocriticism.
Horror films > History and criticism.
Horror in literature.
Horror tales > History and criticism.
Human ecology in literature.
Human ecology in motion pictures.
Nature in literature.
Nature in motion pictures.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Horror & Supernatural.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Ecohorror in the Anthropocene
  • Part 1. Expanding Ecohorror
  • 1. Tentacular Ecohorror and the Agency of Trees in Algernon Blackwood's "The Man Whom the Trees Loved" and Lorcan Finnegan's Without Name
  • 2. Spiraling Inward and Outward: Junji Ito's Uzumaki and the Scope of Ecohorror
  • 3. "The Hand of Deadly Decay": The Rotting Corpse, America's Religious Tradition, and the Ethics of Green Burial in Poe's "The Colloquy of Monos and Una"
  • Part 2. Haunted and Unhaunted Landscapes
  • 4 The Death of Birdsong, the Birdsong of Death: Algernon Charles Swinburne and the Horror of Erosion
  • 5. An Unhaunted Landscape: The Anti-Gothic Impulse in Ambrose Bierce's "A Tough Tussle"
  • 6. The Extinction-Haunted Salton Sea in The Monster That Challenged the World
  • Part 3. The Ecohorror of Intimacy
  • 7. From the Bedroom to the Bathroom: Stephen King's Scatology and the Emergence of an Urban Environmental Gothic
  • 8. "This Bird Made an Art of Being Vile": Ontological Difference and Uncomfortable Intimacies in Stephen Gregory's The Cormorant
  • 9. The Shape of Water and Post-pastoral Ecohorror
  • Part 4. Being Prey, Being Food
  • 10 Superpig Blues: Agribusiness Ecohorror in Bong Joon-ho's Okja
  • 11 Zoo: Television Ecohorror On and Off the Screen
  • 12 Naturalizing White Supremacy in The Shallows
  • Contributors
  • Index

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