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"Through readings of works of film, literature, and philosophy, Eugenie Brinkema shifts understandings of the horror genre away from bodily gore and the spectator's shudder and toward how the genre's sequencing, order, diagrams, and treatment of bodies forces readers to confront ethic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brinkema, Eugenie, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Formalism (Literary analysis)
Critical theory.
Aestheticism (Literature)
Horror in literature.
Formalism (Literature)
Formalisme (Littérature)
Théorie critique.
Esthétisme (Littérature)
Horreur dans la littérature.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
critical theory (sociological concept)
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Critical theory
Horror in literature
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Horrēre or
  • Four Ways of Looking at a Shudder Cervical Fractures
  • As Many Comparisons as Possible (Zickzack)
  • The ordinal (death by design)
  • The Way Deaths Go: Possibility :: Impossibility :: Certainty
  • How the Next Thing Happens
  • Dasein versus Design, and the Work of Reading
  • Interlude I Abecedarium
  • Interlude II Rhythm & feel
  • Interlude III Objects, relations, shape
  • Grid, table, failure, line, the bureaucrat's unconceived child, infinite possible contingencies (extension)
  • Two Violences
  • Middle term notations: letter, number, diagram
  • The Humiliation of Metaphysics
  • Ars formularia: radical formalism and the speculative task
  • Love and measurement
  • The Geometral
  • Negative Space (On no longer being loved)
  • Similitude
  • Incremental Love.

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