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"Throughout history, the religious imagination has attempted to control nothing so much as our bodies: what they are and what they mean; what we do with them, with whom, and under what circumstances; how they may be displayed-or, more commonly, how they must be hidden. Religious belief and mandate affect how our bodies are used in ritual practice, as well as how we use them to identify and marginalize threatening religious Others. This book examines how horror culture treats religious bodies that have stepped (or been pushed) out of their 'proper' place. Unlike most books on religion and horror, this book explores the dark spaces where sex, sexual representation, and the sexual body come together with religious belief and scary stories. Because these intersections of sex, horror, and the religious imagination force us to question the nature of consensus reality, supernatural horror, especially as it concerns the body, often shows us the religious imagination at work in real time. It is important to note that the discussion in this book is not limited either to horror cinema or to popular fiction, but considers a wide range of material, including literary horror, weird fiction, graphic storytelling, visual arts, participative culture, and aspects of real-world religious fear. It is less concerned with horror as a genre (which is mainly a function of marketing) and more with the horror mode, a way of storytelling that finds expression across a number of genres, a variety of media, and even blurs the boundary between fiction and non-fiction. This expanded focus not only deepens the pool of potential examples, but invites a much broader readership in for a swim"--
Horror. --- Human body --- Popular culture --- Religious aspects. --- Alien invasion. --- Ambiguity. --- Anthropology. --- Anti-Catholic nativism. --- Anti-Pagan activism. --- B movies. --- Censorship. --- Clive Barker. --- Clovis Trouille. --- Cosmic horror. --- Cosmic indifference. --- Cthulhu Mythos. --- Devil. --- Dracula. --- Edward Lee. --- Enigma. --- Evolutionary psychology. --- Exploitation. --- Fear. --- Graphic novels. --- H. P. Lovecraft. --- Horror genre. --- Horror mode. --- Human sacrifice. --- Interpretive drift. --- King Kong. --- Legion of Decency. --- Lustmord. --- Margaret Brundage. --- Maria Monk. --- Marquis de Sade. --- Matthew Lewis. --- Monstering. --- Monstrous body. --- Morality. --- Motion Picture Association of America. --- Motion Picture Production Code. --- Nudity. --- Numinous. --- Nun fetish. --- Nunsploitation. --- Pulp fiction. --- Queer horror. --- Realization. --- Religion. --- Religious Imagination. --- Religious imagination. --- Religious questions. --- Riddle. --- Ritual rarity. --- Roger Corman. --- Rudolf Otto. --- Sadeian horror. --- Sex. --- Sexual bodies. --- Sexualized advertising. --- Sigmund Freud. --- Skepticism. --- Spatter horror. --- Stephen King. --- Tanya Luhrmann. --- The Exorcist. --- The Wicker Man. --- The Witch. --- Thomas Rowlandson. --- Weird Tales. --- Witchcraft. --- Wrath James White. --- Sex --- Horror --- Religious aspects
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Nearly as global in its ambition and sweep as its subject, Franco Moretti's The Novel is a watershed event in the understanding of the first truly planetary literary form. A translated selection from the epic five-volume Italian Il Romanzo (2001-2003), The Novel's two volumes are a unified multiauthored reference work, containing more than one hundred specially commissioned essays by leading contemporary critics from around the world. Providing the first international comparative reassessment of the novel, these essential volumes reveal the form in unprecedented depth and breadth--as a great cultural, social, and human phenomenon that stretches from the ancient Greeks to today, where modernity itself is unimaginable without the genre. By viewing the novel as much more than an aesthetic form, this landmark collection demonstrates how the genre has transformed human emotions and behavior, and the very perception of reality. Historical, statistical, and formal analyses show the novel as a complex literary system, in which new forms proliferate in every period and place. Volume 2: Forms and Themes, views the novel primarily from the inside, examining its many formal arrangements and recurrent thematic manifestations, and looking at the plurality of the genre and its lineages. These books will be essential reading for all students and scholars of literature.
Literature. --- Actant. --- Aethiopica. --- Antonomasia. --- Author. --- Bildungsroman. --- Chronotope. --- Correction (novel). --- Debut novel. --- Despair (novel). --- Edition (book). --- English novel. --- Epic and Novel. --- Epilogue. --- Epistle. --- Epistolary novel. --- Essay. --- Fiction. --- Flood Tide (novel). --- Foreword. --- Francis Mulhern. --- French literature. --- G. (novel). --- Galatea 2.2. --- Genre fiction. --- Genre. --- Hans Fallada. --- Hogg (novel). --- Homo Faber (novel). --- Houseboy (novel). --- J. (newspaper). --- John Dos Passos. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary modernism. --- Louis Lambert (novel). --- Mary Shelley. --- Matthew Lewis (writer). --- Memoir. --- Michael Joyce (writer). --- Mircea Eliade. --- Misery (novel). --- Modernity. --- Nadja (novel). --- Narration. --- Narrative poetry. --- Narrative. --- New Society. --- Novel of manners. --- Novel. --- Novelist. --- Novella. --- On Writing (Hemingway). --- On the Beach (novel). --- Only Words (book). --- Paperback. --- Pen name. --- Penguin Books. --- Periodization. --- Persuasion (novel). --- Phaedrus (dialogue). --- Picaresque novel. --- Poetry. --- Potion. --- Precaution (novel). --- Preface. --- Prose. --- Protagonist. --- Psychological novel. --- Publishing. --- Pulp Fiction. --- Revelation. --- Rite. --- Robert Musil. --- Scrutiny (journal). --- Second International. --- Sentimental novel. --- Slowness (novel). --- Social novel. --- Song of Solomon (novel). --- State of the World (book series). --- Suffrage. --- Sune (Forgotten Realms). --- The Comic. --- The Cossacks (novel). --- The Mansion (novel). --- The Modern World (novel). --- The Unnamable (novel). --- The Unnamable (short story). --- The Veldt (short story). --- Tobias Smollett. --- Trope (literature). --- Valediction. --- Verb. --- Verisimilitude (fiction). --- Villette (novel). --- Wieland (novel). --- Woolf. --- Writer. --- Writing. --- Xala (novel).
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