Arthur Machen: Critical Essays - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 179363548X ISBN 13 : 9781793635488

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2023

Synopsis

Arthur Machen: Critical Essays offers a study of the works by Arthur Machen (1863-1947), the Welsh writer who has attracted a cult following for decades, especially among fans and scholars of weird fiction and Gothic studies. These essays take readers into different areas and address several topics in Machen's literary production: the literary, the artistic, the scientific, the religious, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The twelve chapters constituting the volume examine the representation of human beings in the writer's works and their relationship with the surrounding environment, whether it is the omnipresent London or the mysterious, menacing nature. The contributors also interpret Machen's writings through a series of disciplines and academic theories that were contemporary to the writer (such as paleontology and medicine) and demonstrate how he was influenced by the scientific discourses of his time and reproduced them in his works. The last section of the volume considers Machen's interest in the occult and mysticism and the religious themes present in many of his works.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Antonio Sanna is teaching assistant at the University of Sassari.

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he teaches courses on international horror film. He also serves on the editorial board of New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (Intellect), Director of the horror cinema research group "Grite," and Director of the Spanish horror studies series "Terror: Estudios Críticos" (Universidad de Cádiz).

Adrian Tait is an ecocritic with a particular interest in Victorian and modernist literary responses to environmental crisis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 179363548X
• ISBN 13: 9781793635488
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Éditeur: Sanna Antonio
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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