The Forest and the EcoGothic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forest and the EcoGothic write by Elizabeth Parker. This book was released on 2020-02-13. The Forest and the EcoGothic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers the first full length study on the pervasive archetype of The Gothic Forest in Western culture. The idea of the forest as deep, dark, and dangerous has an extensive history and continues to resonate throughout contemporary popular culture. The Forest and the EcoGothic examines both why we fear the forest and how exactly these fears manifest in our stories. It draws on and furthers the nascent field of the ecoGothic, which seeks to explore the intersections between ecocriticism and Gothic studies. In the age of the Anthropocene, this work importantly interrogates our relationship to and understandings of the more-than-human world. This work introduces the trope of the Gothic forest, as well as important critical contexts for its discussion, and examines the three main ways in which this trope manifests: as a living, animated threat; as a traditional habitat for monsters; and as a dangerous site for human settlement. This book will appeal to students and scholars with interests in horror and the Gothic, ecohorror and the ecoGothic, environmentalism, ecocriticism, and popular culture more broadly. The accessibility of the subject of ‘The Deep Dark Woods’, coupled with increasingly mainstream interests in interactions between humanity and nature, means this work will also be of keen interest to the general public.
EcoGothic
EcoGothic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook EcoGothic write by Andrew Smith. This book was released on 2015-11-01. EcoGothic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse – images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context.
Beasts of the Forest
Beasts of the Forest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beasts of the Forest write by Jon Hackett. This book was released on 2019-12-02. Beasts of the Forest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beasts of the Forest: Denizens of the Dark Woods offers its readers an in-depth and interdisciplinary engagement with the forest and its monstrous inhabitants; through critical readings of folklore, fiction, film, music video and animation. Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the forest in media and folklore. The collection features chapters from a variety of academic perspectives: film and media studies, cultural studies, queer theory, Tolkien studies, mythology and popular music are featured. Under examination are a wide range of narratives and media forms that represent, reimagine and create the werewolves, witches and weird apparitions that inhabit the forest, along with the forest as a monstrous entity in itself. Whether they be our shelter and safe-haven or the domain of malevolent spirits and sprites, forests have the capacity to horrify and threaten those that venture into them without permission. Human interference has continually threatened forests across the world, yet this threat is reversed in myth, folklore and more recent cultural forms. This collection ranges widely to analyse how forests figure in contemporary culture, as well as the wider contexts in which such representations are inserted.
'That Awful Secret of the Wood'
'That Awful Secret of the Wood' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 'That Awful Secret of the Wood' write by Elizabeth Parker. This book was released on 2016. 'That Awful Secret of the Wood' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century
EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century write by Sue Edney. This book was released on 2020. EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material ecocritical methodology to examine uncanny vegetal agency. Monster plants, mystical trees, fairy groves, grim lakes and talking flowers are among the topics, seen through prose, poetry and painting.
