The Development of the Weird Tale - Softcover

Joshi, S. T.

 
9781793311955: The Development of the Weird Tale
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1793311951 ISBN 13: 9781793311955
Verlag: Independently published, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

In this wide-ranging collection of his essays on weird fiction, S. T. Joshi spans two centuries of work in the field of supernatural horror. Beginning with the work of Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) and Théophile Gautier (“One of Cleopatra’s Nights”), Joshi moves on to study the life and work of such prominent writers as W. W. Jacobs (author of “The Monkey’s Paw”), Algernon Blackwood, Thomas Burke, and D. H. Lawrence. Weird poetry has been a particular interest of Joshi’s, and he supplies extensive discussions of the verse of George Sterling, Samuel Loveman, Clark Ashton Smith, and Donald Wandrei. Moving to the work of the past half-century, Joshi studies Shirley Jackson’s The Sundial (1958), three novels of the unjustly forgotten writer L. P. Davies, and the fusion of Lovecraftian elements and atheism in the films of Guillermo del Toro. The book concludes with an analysis of nine novels of the supernatural that were appreciated by H. P. Lovecraft. In all, Joshi again demonstrates the richness, variety, and aesthetic significance of the weird tale.

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Verlag
Independently published
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1793311951
ISBN 13 
9781793311955
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
234
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