Research Catalog

Title

Spaces and fictions of the weird and the fantastic : ecologies, geographies, oddities / Julius Greve, Florian Zappe, editors.

Publication

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Greve, Julius
• Zappe, Florian, 1977-

Description

xii, 208 pages; 21 cm.

Series Statement

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies

Uniform Title

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.

Subject

• Geography in literature
• Space in literature
• Fiction genres > History and criticism
• Film genres > History and criticism
• Fantasy fiction > History and criticism
• Fiction genres
• Film genres

Genre/Form

• Fantasy fiction.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Ecologies and Geographies of the Weird and the Fantastic / Julius Greve and Florian Zappe -- Naturhorror and the Weird / Eugene Thacker -- Uncanny New Worlds in Harriet Prescott Spofford's "D'Outre Mort" and "The Black Bess" -- Michaela Keck -- The Weird and the Wild: Media Ecologies of the Outré-Normative / Julius Greve -- Queering the Weird: Unnatural Participations and the Mucosal in H. P. Lovecraft and Occulture / Patricia MacCormack -- Geological Insurrections: Politics of Planetary Weirding from China Miéville to N. K. Jemisin / Moritz Ingwersen -- "Indifference Would Be Such a Relief": Race and Weird Geography in Victor LaValle and Matt Ruff's Dialogues with H. P. Lovecraft / James Kneale -- The Oceanic Weird, Wet Ontologies and Hydro-Criticism in China Miéville's The Scar / Jolene Mathieson -- "Through the Eyes of Area X": (Dis)Locating Ecological Hope via New Weird Spatiality / Gry Ulstein -- Inexistent Ink: Michael Cisco and Quentin Meillassoux on Writing Worlds / Ben Woodard -- Notes on the Alluring Weirdness of (Materialist) Rumination and Regurgitation: Reading Ariana Reines and Jamie Stewart / Marius Henderson -- Spaces of Communal Misery: The Weird Post-Capitalism of Beasts of the Southern Wild / Marlon Lieber.

Call Number

JFD 20-2465

ISBN

• 9783030281151
• 3030281159
• 9783030281168 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1122880745

Title

Spaces and fictions of the weird and the fantastic : ecologies, geographies, oddities / Julius Greve, Florian Zappe, editors.

Publisher

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies

Geocriticism and spatial literary studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Greve, Julius, editor.

Zappe, Florian, 1977- editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783030281168

Research Call Number

JFD 20-2465