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Fear and nature : ecohorror studies in the Anthropocene /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | AnthropoScene.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Ecohorror in the anthropocene / Christy Tidwell and Carter Soles
- Part 1: Expanding ecohorror. Tentacular ecohorror and the agency of trees in Algernon Blackwood's "The man whom the trees loved" and Lorcan Finnegan's Without name / Dawn Keetley ; Spiraling inward and outward : Junji Ito's Uzumaki and the scope of ecohorror ; "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. The death of birdsong, the birdsong of death : Algernon Charles Swinburne and the horror of erosion / Keri Stevenson ; An unhaunted landscape : the anti-gothic impulse in Ambrose Bierce's "A tough tussle" / Chelsea Davis ; The extinction-haunted Salton Sea in The monster that challenged the world / Bridgitte Barclay
- Part 3: The ecohorror of intimacy. From the bedroom to the bathroom : Stephen King's Scatology and the emergence of an urban environmental gothic / Marison Cortez ; "This bird made an art of being vile" : ontological difference and uncomfortable intimacies in Stephen Gregory's The cormorant / Brittany R. Roberts ; The shape of water and post-pastoral ecohorror / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann
- Part 4: Being prey, being food. Superpig blues : agribusiness ecohorror in Bong Joon-ho's Okja / Kristen Angierski ; Zoo : television ecohorror on and off the screen / Sharon Sharp ; Naturalizing white supremacy in The shallows / Carter Soles.