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The intermedial experience of horror : suspended failures

Title
  1. The intermedial experience of horror : suspended failures / Jarkko Toikkanen, University of Tampere, Finland.
Published by
  1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Author
  1. Toikkanen, Jarkko

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Description
  1. xi, 167 pages; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures is an exploration of the phenomenon of horror from an unusual angle. Whereas many past studies have concentrated either on establishing horror as a genre across the media or on observing horror as a catalogue of mental disturbances or collective cultural trauma, this book takes a different approach. Focusing on reading specific examples of literature from Romanticism to Modernism, the study brings together the phenomenon of horror with the topical concepts of experience and intermediality and highlights the complex relations they present. Horror is explored as an experience, one defined and brought into being by a break between the media of words and images. In literature, where images as such are frequently absent and the reader works from words alone, the experience of horror hinges on a suspended failure of the imagination." -- Publisher website.
Subject
  1. Horror tales > History and criticism
  2. Intermediality
  3. Horror in literature
Contents
  1. Preface : the intermedial experience of horror -- Acknowlegements -- Part I. Concepts -- Horror -- Experience -- Intermediality -- Part II. Case studies -- Heinrich von Kleist : ̈'Uber das Marionettentheater' -- E.T.A. Hoffmann : 'Der Sandmann' -- Robert Frost : 'The fear' -- W.B. Yeats : 'The magi' -- Postface : suspended failures -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Call number
  1. JFD 13-5710
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-161) and index.
Author
  1. Toikkanen, Jarkko, author.
Title
  1. The intermedial experience of horror : suspended failures / Jarkko Toikkanen, University of Tampere, Finland.
Publisher
  1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-161) and index.
LCCN
  1. 2013038137
ISBN
  1. 9781137299086 (hardback)
  2. 1137299088 (hardback)
Research call number
  1. JFD 13-5710
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