Gothic Kernow Cornwall As Strange Fiction

Author : Ruth Heholt,Tanya Krzywinska
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781785279089

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Gothic Kernow: Cornwall as Strange Fiction by Ruth Heholt,Tanya Krzywinska Pdf

Cornwall as Strange Fiction is focused on written and visual culture that is made in, or made about, Cornwall and where there is affinity with Gothic. Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ‘Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic. In 1998, Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik coined the term ‘Cornish Gothic’ in relation to the work of Daphne du Maurier. Since then, however, there have been few discussions of the distinctive types of Gothic engendered by cultural and imaginative re-creations of Cornwall or where it has played a generative role within creative practice. Cornwall as Strange Fiction argues that a persistent imaginative romance with the peninsular has produced a specific and distinctive set of Gothic fictions and creative outputs that mark an exciting new departure in the discussion of regional and media-aware Gothic studies. Offering new insights into the relationships between place and Gothic, this book aims to engender and encourage greater debate through our argument that Cornwall plays a potent role in the landscape of regional Gothic and argues that it needs to be considered more fully as a major catalyst in the Gothic imagination.

Author : Ruth Heholt,Tanya Krzywinska
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785279072

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Gothic Kernow: Cornwall as Strange Fiction by Ruth Heholt,Tanya Krzywinska Pdf

Focussing on written and visual culture that is made in or made about Cornwall, this book argues that Cornwall and the Scilly Isles (known as ‘Kernow’ in the Cornish language) have a special relationship with Gothic, one that has been overlooked in the literature on regional Gothic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476651637

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Clues: A Journal of Detection, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Spring 2023) by Anonim Pdf

For over two decades, Clues has included the best scholarship on mystery and detective fiction. With a combination of academic essays and nonfiction book reviews, it covers all aspects of mystery and detective fiction material in print, television and movies. As the only American scholarly journal on mystery fiction, Clues is essential reading for literature and film students and researchers; popular culture aficionados; librarians; and mystery authors, fans and critics around the globe.

Author : Dawn Keetley,Ruth Heholt
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786839817

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Folk Horror by Dawn Keetley,Ruth Heholt Pdf

While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but directors and novelists around the world have also been reinventing folk horror for the contemporary moment. This study sets out to rethink the assumptions that have guided critical writing on the genre in the face of such expansions, with chapters exploring a range of subjects from the fiction of E. F. Benson to Scooby-Doo, video games, and community engagement with the Lancashire witches. In looking beyond Britain, the essays collected here extend folk horror’s geographic terrain to map new conceptualisations of the genre now seen emerging from Italy, Ukraine, Thailand, Mexico and the Appalachian region of the US.

Author : Joan Passey
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786839923

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Cornish Gothic, 1830-1913 by Joan Passey Pdf

This book asks why so many authors drew on Cornwall for inspiration across the long nineteenth century, and considers the seismic cultural changes in Cornwall that spurred this interest – from the collapse of the mining industry to the developing national rail network; from the birth of tourism to the neomedieval rise in interest in King Arthur. Understanding frequently overlooked Cornwall in this period is vital to understanding Gothic literature, the Victorian imagination, intellectual and creative networks, and attitudes towards regionality. The first part of the book considers landscape and legend, defining a mining Gothic tradition, exposing the shipwreck as Gothic mastertrope, and demonstrating how antiquarians drew from Cornish legends and lore. The second part explores encounters with modernity, investigating the impact of railway expansion on access to Cornwall, the development of a Cornish King Arthur as a key figure of Victorian masculinity, and the specific features of the Cornish ghost story.

Author : Robert Edgar,Wayne Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000951851

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The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror by Robert Edgar,Wayne Johnson Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror offers a comprehensive guide to this popular genre. It explores its origins, canonical texts and thinkers, the crucial underlying themes of nostalgia and hauntology, and identifies new trends in the field. Divided into five parts, the first focuses on the history of Folk Horror from medieval texts to the present day. It considers the first wave of contemporary Folk Horror through the films of the ‘unholy trinity’, as well as discussing the influence of ancient gods and early Folk Horror. Part 2 looks at the spaces, landscapes, and cultural relics, which form a central focus for Folk Horror. In Part 3, the contributors examine the rich history of the use of folklore in children’s fiction. The next part discusses recent examples of Folk Horror-infused music and image. Chapters consider the relationship between different genres of music to Folk Horror (such as folk music, black metal, and new wave), sound and performance, comic books, and the Dark Web. Often regarded as British in origin, the final part analyses texts which break this link, as the contributors reveal the larger realms of regional, national, international, and transnational Folk Horror. Featuring 40 contributions, this authoritative collection brings together leading voices in the field. It is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in this vibrant genre and its enduring influence on literature, film, music, and culture.

Author : Joan Passey
Publisher : British Library
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0712353992

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Cornish Horrors by Joan Passey Pdf

A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the Cornish woods, only to wonder whether it was he himself who committed the crime. Offering a bounty of lost or forgotten strange and Gothic tales set in Cornwall, Cornish Horrors explores the rich folklore and traditions of the county in a journey through mines, local mythology, shipwrecks, seascapes, and the coming of the railway and tourism. With tales by horror luminaries such as Bram Stoker, Poe, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, this edition also features a host of underappreciated writers such as F. Tennyson Jesse and Margery Williams - said to be a strong influence on Lovecraft's writing.

Author : Grant Allen
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664636744

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Strange Stories by Grant Allen Pdf

This is a Victorian collection of stories written by the Canadian author Grant Allen. He was not only an author but also a naturalist. The stories themselves are varied and interesting, reflecting the common sentiments and manners of the times in which they were written and generally presenting a picture of an orderly world where what is expected happens.

Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1154285950

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The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction by Jerrold E. Hogle Pdf

Fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying genre from the 1760s to the end of the twentieth century. Essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theater, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, and changing attitudes towards human identity, life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.

Author : Brendan Hennessy
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015016878145

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The Gothic Novel by Brendan Hennessy Pdf

A volume in the Writers and Their Work series, which draws upon recent thinking in English studies to introduce writers and their contexts. Each volume includes biographical material, an examination of recent criticism, a bibliography and a reappraisal of a major work by the writer.

Author : Robin Mackay
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781913029784

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Hydroplutonic Kernow by Robin Mackay Pdf

A geophilosophical odyssey through the remains of Cornwall's industrial past offers a historical portrait of geotrauma in action. This unique document provides a pioneering case study in post-“site-specific” geophilosophy. Based on a weird field trip into Cornwall's mining heartlands with geologists, philosophers, and ecologists as guides, Hydroplutonic Kernow drills down through nature, industry, and cultural capital to site the local within the global, unfolding the telluric plots that manipulated populations and devastated the landscape during the industrial age. In doing so, it provides a historical portrait of geotrauma in action. This geophilosophical odyssey takes us through the remains of the region's industrial past, reading them through the twisted prism of the geocosmic theory of trauma espoused by legendary “cryptographer” Dr. Daniel Barker and further developed by Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani, and uncovering the deep plot of the Hydroplutonic Conspiracy, the collusion between water and the depths of the earth. Along with full documentation of the trip, the book also contains exegetical materials including an essay by Reza Negarestani, a poem by Jake Chapman, a preface by Caitlin DeSilvey, and an in-depth interview with Mining Engineer Steve Tarrant.

Author : Davies Gilbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
ISBN : HARVARD:HX7994

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The Parochial History of Cornwall by Davies Gilbert Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Parker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030351540

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The Forest and the EcoGothic by Elizabeth Parker Pdf

This book offers the first full length study on the pervasive archetype of The Gothic Forest in Western culture. The idea of the forest as deep, dark, and dangerous has an extensive history and continues to resonate throughout contemporary popular culture. The Forest and the EcoGothic examines both why we fear the forest and how exactly these fears manifest in our stories. It draws on and furthers the nascent field of the ecoGothic, which seeks to explore the intersections between ecocriticism and Gothic studies. In the age of the Anthropocene, this work importantly interrogates our relationship to and understandings of the more-than-human world. This work introduces the trope of the Gothic forest, as well as important critical contexts for its discussion, and examines the three main ways in which this trope manifests: as a living, animated threat; as a traditional habitat for monsters; and as a dangerous site for human settlement. This book will appeal to students and scholars with interests in horror and the Gothic, ecohorror and the ecoGothic, environmentalism, ecocriticism, and popular culture more broadly. The accessibility of the subject of ‘The Deep Dark Woods’, coupled with increasingly mainstream interests in interactions between humanity and nature, means this work will also be of keen interest to the general public.

Author : Andrew Whittaker
Publisher : Thorogood Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : British
ISBN : 9781854186270

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Britain by Andrew Whittaker Pdf

British culture is strewn with names that strike a chord the world over such as Shakespeare, Churchill, Dickens, Pinter, Lennon and McCartney. This book examines the people, history and movements that have shaped Britain as it now is, providing key information in easily digested chunks.

Author : Petra Hauke,Karen Latimer,Robert Niess
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110679724

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New Libraries in Old Buildings by Petra Hauke,Karen Latimer,Robert Niess Pdf

This book focuses on difficulties and opportunities in revitalization of old, derelict or abandoned buildings into a library and investigates the transformation of buildings which originally had a different purpose. The publication shows worldwide best practice examples from different types of libraries in historic environments, both urban and rural, while maintaining a focus on sustainability concerning the architecture and interior design.