Fear and nature ecohorror studies in the Anthropocene / edited by Christy Tidwell and Carter Soles.

Other author Tidwell, Christy.
Other author Soles, Carter, 1971-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021]
Description292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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SeriesAnthropoScene : the SLSA book series
AnthropoScene. ^A1384728
Contents Tentacular ecohorror and the agency of trees in Algernon Blackwood's "The man whom the trees loved" and Lorcan Finnegan's Without name / Dawn Keetley -- Spiraling inward and outward : Junji Ito's Uzumaki and the scope of ecohorror / Christy Tidwell -- "The hand of deadly decay" : the rotting corpse, America's religious tradition, and the ethics of green burial in Poe's "The colloquy of Monos and Una" / Ashley Kniss -- The death of birdsong, the birdsong of death : Algernon Charles Swinburne and the horror of erosion / Keri Stevenson -- An unhaunted landscape : the anti-gothic impulse in Ambrose Bierce's "A tough tussle" / Chelsea Davis -- The extinction-haunted Salton Sea in The monster that challenged the world / Bridgitte Barclay -- From the bedroom to the bathroom : Stephen King's scatology and the emergence of an urban environmental gothic / Marisol Cortez -- "This bird made an art of being vile" : ontological difference and uncomfortable intimacies in Stephen Gregory's The cormorant / Brittany R. Roberts -- The shape of water and post-pastoral ecohorror / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann -- Superpig blues : agribusiness ecohorror in Bong Joon-ho's Okja / Kristen Angierski -- Zoo : television ecohorror on and off the screen / Sharon Sharp -- Naturalizing white supremacy in The shallows / Carter Soles.
Abstract "A collection of essays analyzing ecohorror motifs in literature, manga, film, and television, illuminating ambiguities that arise from human encounters with nonhuman nature and examining the scale and effect of ecohorror in, and of, the Anthropocene"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2021006871
ISBN9780271090214 (hardback)

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