Weird Mysticism

Author : Brad Baumgartner
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781683932888

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Weird Mysticism by Brad Baumgartner Pdf

Weird Mysticism identifies and evaluates a new category of theoretical inquiry by showing the influence of speculative writing on three intersecting critical categories: horror fiction, apophatic mysticism, and philosophical pessimism. Exploring the work of Thomas Ligotti, Georges Bataille, and E. M. Cioran, Baumgartner argues that these “weird mystics” employ an innovative mode of negative writing that seeks to merge new conceptions of reality. While exploring perennial questions about “the absolute,” the Outside, and other philosophical concepts, these authors push the limits of representation, experimenting with literary form, genre-bending, and aphoristic discourse. As their works reveal, the category of weird mysticism both conjoins and obscures the link between traditional mysticism and philosophical horror fiction, with weirdness itself being the central magnet that draws the seemingly disparate realms of horror fiction, philosophy, and mysticism together. Highlighting the theoretical stakes of the horror genre, Baumgartner’s study reveals how the mystical potentially recuperates the limits of philosophical thinking, enabling reflection on—and possibly challenging—the limits of human understanding.

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547000396

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Weird Tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann Pdf

Hoffman's "Weird Tales" is a brilliant collection of his best works, including the world-known stories like "Mademoiselle De Scuderi," "The Nutcracker and The Mouse King," and also one of the first horror stories in the romantic literature "The Sandman." Hoffman's protagonists are romantic and brave representatives of the epoch. He writes about artists, musicians, poets, and also noble people of trade. His characters live in the era when men fight on duels and women faint to stress their fragility. The range of his characters is stunning. It includes the lady detective Mademoiselle De Scuderi, a mysterious Sandman who steals the eyes of those who don't want to go to bed, and an opera singer Signor Formica. Each of the presented stories has a unique character and belongs to the most valuable pieces of the world's literature that never cease to be topical, intriguing, captivating, and inspiring. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_

Author : E. T. A. Hoffmann
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4066338130310

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Weird Tales (Vol. 1&2) by E. T. A. Hoffmann Pdf

Hoffman's "Weird Tales" is a brilliant collection of his best works, including the world-known stories like "Mademoiselle De Scuderi," "The Nutcracker and The Mouse King," and also one of the first horror stories in the romantic literature "The Sandman." Hoffman's protagonists are romantic and brave representatives of the epoch. He writes about artists, musicians, poets, and also noble people of trade. His characters live in the era when men fight on duels and women faint to stress their fragility. The range of his characters is stunning. It includes the lady detective Mademoiselle De Scuderi, a mysterious Sandman who steals the eyes of those who don't want to go to bed, and an opera singer Signor Formica. Each of the presented stories has a unique character and belongs to the most valuable pieces of the world's literature that never cease to be topical, intriguing, captivating, and inspiring. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_

Author : Mark A. Fabrizi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781538166055

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Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature by Mark A. Fabrizi Pdf

Historical Dictionary of Horror Literature contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries covering authors, subgenres, tropes, awards, organizations, and important terms related to horror.,

Author : Robert W. Chambers
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 12282 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Delphi Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers (Illustrated) by Robert W. Chambers Pdf

The American Robert W. Chambers was a pioneer writer of weird, fantasy and supernatural tales, whose seminal collection of stories ‘The King in Yellow’ has had a lasting influence on the horror genre. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete Weird short story collections of Robert W. Chambers, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Chambers’ life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 42 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Many novels and tales are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * The complete Weird short story collections, including many Weird tales appearing here for the first time in digital publishing * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Franco-Prussian War Trilogy The Novels In the Quarter The Red Republic Lorraine Ashes of Empire Cardigan The Maid-At-Arms The Maids of Paradise In Search of the Unknown The Reckoning Iole The Tracer of Lost Persons The Fighting Chance The Younger Set The Firing Line Special Messenger The Danger Mark The Green Mouse Ailsa Paige The Common Law The Adventures of a Modest Man Blue-Bird Weather The Streets of Ascalon Japonette The Gay Rebellion The Business of Life Quick Action The Hidden Children Anne’s Bridge Between Friends Who Goes There! Athalie The Girl Philippa The Dark Star Barbarians The Laughing Girl The Restless Sex The Moonlit Way In Secret The Crimson Tide The Slayer of Souls The Little Red Foot The Flaming Jewel The Short Story Collections The King in Yellow The Maker of Moons The Mystery of Choice The Haunts of Men A Young Man in a Hurry The Tree of Heaven Police!!! The Better Man A Story of Primitive Love The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

Author : Kristopher Karl Woofter,Lorna Jowett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786725417

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Joss Whedon vs. the Horror Tradition by Kristopher Karl Woofter,Lorna Jowett Pdf

Although ostensibly presented as “light entertainment,” the work of writer-director-producer Joss Whedon takes much dark inspiration from the horror genre to create a unique aesthetic and perform a cultural critique. Featuring monsters, the undead, as well as drawing upon folklore and fairy tales, his many productions both celebrate and masterfully repurpose the traditions of horror for their own means. Woofter and Jowett's collection looks at how Whedon revisits existing feminist tropes in the '70s and '80s “slasher” craze via Buffy the Vampire Slayer to create a feminist saga; the innovative use of silent cinema tropes to produce a new fear-laden, film-television intertext; postmodernist reflexivity in Cabin in the Woods; as well as exploring new concepts on “cosmic dread” and the sublime for a richer understanding of programmes Dollhouse and Firefly. Chapters provide the historical context of horror as well as the particular production backgrounds that by turns support, constrain or transform this mode of filmmaking. Informed by a wide range of theory from within philosophy, film studies, queer studies, psychoanalysis, feminism and other fields, the expert contributions to this volume prove the enduring relevance of Whedon's genre-based universe to the study of film, television, popular culture and beyond.

Author : Marshall McLuhan,David Carson,Eric McLuhan,William Kuhns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Mass media
ISBN : UOM:39015048090735

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The Book of Probes by Marshall McLuhan,David Carson,Eric McLuhan,William Kuhns Pdf

"'The Book of Probes' is a collection of Marshall McLuhan's finest words culled from his books, his more than 200 speeches, his classes at the University of Toronto ... and from nearly 700 shorter writings he published between 1945 and 1980"--Jacket.

Author : Yvonne Liebermann,Judith Rahn,Bettina Burger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030794422

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Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel by Yvonne Liebermann,Judith Rahn,Bettina Burger Pdf

This book offers an overview on the growing field of nonhuman studies in relation to Anglophone novels. It illuminates the variety of nonhuman actors that take centre stage in the twenty-first-century novel and the formal changes that the Anthropocene, the digital turn, the animal rights movement, and research into plant consciousness have brought to the novel as a form. The book is divided into four sections, each focusing on a different aspect of twenty-first-century literature that engages with the nonhuman. The collection investigates how the environmental changes and the increasing use of AI technologies have fostered the flourishing of genres like the New Weird, Climate Fiction, and speculative fiction, how it makes us embrace new perceptions of life in relation to genetic engineering, and how it forces us to engage with newly emerging political contexts.

Author : Charles Clark Munn
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547355281

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The Girl From Tim's Place by Charles Clark Munn Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Girl From Tim's Place" by Charles Clark Munn. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Eric Warner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349174898

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Virginia Woolf by Eric Warner Pdf

"Proceedings of the Virginia Woolf Centenary Conference, which took place on 20-22 September, 1982 at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge"--Introd.

Author : Steven Shakespeare,Niamh Malone,Gary Anderson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538147474

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Art Disarming Philosophy by Steven Shakespeare,Niamh Malone,Gary Anderson Pdf

Non-philosophy poses a challenge to philosophical thought, inspired by the work of François Laruelle. It questions the idea that philosophy, or other disciplines, can tell us what it means to think. This edited collection brings together an internationally known and interdisciplinary group of scholars, including a major new essay by Laruelle himself. Together they use non-philosophy to cross the boundaries between philosophy and performance. Philosophers have been busy for centuries looking for the foundations of truth, value, and reality. They try to say what it all means and how it all fits together. Areas of life like science and art have to wait for the philosopher to show up to tell them what they are really about. Theory dictates meaning: performance just puts it into effect. Non-philosophy is different. It says that reality is not an object out there that we can think and understand. The Real is the place we stand: it is where we think from. Crucially, non-philosophy understands philosophy itself to be performative. It enacts modes of thinking that do not dominate the material of thought and do not capture the Real in concepts. Philosophy is mutated by its performances; and performances themselves think, are modes of theory. What happens when we bring philosophy, art, and performance together, without hierarchy? How can they get inside and change one another? The thinkers in this collection answer these pressing questions.

Author : Kendall R. Phillips
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781477315538

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A Place of Darkness by Kendall R. Phillips Pdf

“An illuminating history . . . it’s clear that the right story can still terrify us; A Place of Darkness is a primer on how the movies learned to do it.” —NPR Horror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term “horror film” was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular with American audiences since the emergence of novelty cinematographic attractions in the late 1890s. A Place of Darkness illuminates the prehistory of the horror genre by tracing the way horrific elements and stories were portrayed in films prior to the introduction of the term “horror film.” Using a rhetorical approach that examines not only early films but also the promotional materials for them and critical responses to them, Kendall R. Phillips argues that the portrayal of horrific elements was enmeshed in broader social tensions around the emergence of American identity and, in turn, American cinema. He shows how early cinema linked monsters, ghosts, witches, and magicians with Old World superstitions and beliefs, in contrast to an American way of thinking that was pragmatic, reasonable, scientific, and progressive. Throughout the teens and twenties, Phillips finds, supernatural elements were almost always explained away as some hysterical mistake, humorous prank, or nefarious plot. The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, constituted a substantial upheaval in the system of American certainty and opened a space for the reemergence of Old-World gothic within American popular discourse in the form of the horror genre, which has terrified and thrilled fans ever since. “[A] fascinating read.” —Sublime Horror

Author : Jacob Nordby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0996898913

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Blessed Are the Weird by Jacob Nordby Pdf

This is a book for everyone who wants to lead a deep, true, and passionate life and leave the world better for having passed this way.

Author : Henry Sotheran Ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015077900960

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The Christmas Bookseller by Henry Sotheran Ltd Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1826 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UIUC:30112081497460

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The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal by Anonim Pdf

Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.