Fear and Nature
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-09022-1 (ISBN)
Featuring new readings of the genre, Fear and Nature brings ecohorror texts and theories into conversation with other critical discourses. The chapters cover a variety of media forms, from literature and short fiction to manga, poetry, television, and film. The chronological range is equally varied, beginning in the nineteenth century with the work of Edgar Allan Poe and finishing in the twenty-first with Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro. This range highlights the significance of ecohorror as a mode. In their analyses, the contributors make explicit connections across chapters, question the limits of the genre, and address the ways in which our fears about nature intersect with those we hold about the racial, animal, and bodily “other.”
A foundational text, this volume will appeal to specialists in horror studies, Gothic studies, the environmental humanities, and ecocriticism.
In addition to the editors, the contributors include Kristen Angierski, Bridgitte Barclay, Marisol Cortez, Chelsea Davis, Joseph K. Heumann, Dawn Keetley, Ashley Kniss, Robin L. Murray, Brittany R. Roberts, Sharon Sharp, and Keri Stevenson.
Christy Tidwell is Associate Professor of English and Humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. She is the coeditor of Gender and Environment in Science Fiction. Carter Soles is Associate Professor of Film Studies at SUNY Brockport. He has published a number of journal articles and book chapters in the fields of film studies and ecomedia.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Ecohorror in the Anthropocene
Christy Tidwell and Carter Soles
Part 1: Expanding Horror
1. 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
2. Spiraling Inward and Outward: Junji Ito’s Uzumaki and the Scope of Ecohorror
Christy Tidwell
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”
Ashley Kniss
Part 2: Haunted and Unhaunted Landscapes
4. The Death of Birdsong, the Birdsong of Death: Algernon Charles Swinburne and the Horror of Erosion
Keri Stevenson
5. An Unhaunted Landscape: The Anti-Gothic Impulse in Ambrose Bierce’s “A Tough Tussle”
Chelsea Davis
6. The Extinction-Haunted Salton Sea in The Monster That Challenged the World
Bridgitte Barclay
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
Marisol Cortez
8. “This Bird Made an Art of Being Vile”: Ontological Difference and Uncomfortable Intimacies in Stephen Gregory’s The Cormorant
Brittany R. Roberts
9. The Shape of Water and Post-pastoral Ecohorror
Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann
Part 4: Being Prey, Being Food
10. Superpig Blues: Agribusiness Ecohorror in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja
Kristen Angierski
11. Zoo: Television Ecohorror On and Off the Screen
Sharon Sharp
12. Naturalizing White Supremacy in The Shallows
Carter Soles
Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.08.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | AnthropoScene |
| Zusatzinfo | 5 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | University Park |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 426 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-271-09022-7 / 0271090227 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-09022-1 / 9780271090221 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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