The biology of horror : gothic literature and film /
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| Author / Creator: | Morgan, Jack, 1939- |
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| Imprint: | Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2002. |
| Description: | 263 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4759707 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- The Biology of Horror
- Introduction The Body is His Book
- 1. Mortal Coils: the Comic-Horror Double Helix
- 2. The Muse of Horror: Traditions of Dreadful Imagining
- 3. Macabre Aesthetics
- 4. The Anxiety of Organism
- 5. Acquaintance with the Night: America and the Muse of Horror
- 6. Dark Carnival: the Esoterics of Celebration
- 7. Languishment: the Wounded Hero
- 8. Sinister Loci: the Properties of Terror
- 9. Apotropaion and the Hideous Obscure
- 10. The Soul at Zero: Dark Epiphanies
- Notes Works Cited Index
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
