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Horror tales -- History and criticism.
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Horror films -- History and criticism.
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Horror in literature.
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Human ecology in literature.
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Human ecology in motion pictures.
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Nature in literature.
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Nature in motion pictures.
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Ecocriticism.
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Descript |
1 online resource (292 pages) : illustrations |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
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Series published in collaboration with the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts. |
Contents |
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. |
Alt author |
Tidwell, Christy, editor.
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Soles, Carter, 1971- editor.
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Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, publisher.
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ISBN |
027109043X (electronic book) |
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9780271090436 (electronic book) |
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9780271090214 (hardback) |
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