Intermedial Experience of Horror - Suspended Failures

This book is an exploration of the phenomenon of horror from an unusual angle. 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.

List of contents

Preface: The Intermedial Experience of Horror PART I: CONCEPTS 1. Horror 2. Experience 3. Intermediality PART II: CASE STUDIES 4. Heinrich von Kleist: 'Über das Marionettentheater' 5. E. T. A. Hoffmann 'Der Sandmann' 6. Robert Frost: 'The Fear' 7. W. B. Yeats: 'The Magi' Postface: Suspended Failures Appendices Bibliography Index

About the author

Jarkko Toikkanen teaches literature as a university lecturer in English Language, Literature and Translation at the University of Tampere, Finland. Previous appointments include Visiting Research Fellowship at the University of Westminster, London, UK. He has published the co-edited collection of articles The Grotesque and the Unnatural (2011).

Summary

This book is an exploration of the phenomenon of horror from an unusual angle. 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.

Product details

• Authors: J Toikkanen, J. Toikkanen, Jarkko Toikkanen
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349452606
• ISBN: 978-1-349-45260-6
• No. of pages: 178
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Literature—Philosophy, America—Literatures, North American Literature