Who’s afraid of…?
Facets of Fear in Anglophone Literature and Film
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An exploration of representations of fear in different genres and media from the Renaissance to the present
Fear in its many facets appears to constitute an intriguing and compelling subject matter for writers and screenwriters alike. The contributions address fictional representations and explorations of fear in different genres and different periods of literary and cultural history. The topics include representations of political violence and political fear in English Renaissance culture and literature; dramatic representations of fear and anxiety in English Romanticism; the dramatic monologue as an expression of fears in Victorian society; cultural constructions of fear and empathy in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876) and Jonathan Nasaw's Fear Itself (2003); facets of children's fears in twentieth- and twenty-first-century stream-of-consciousness fiction; the representation of fear in war movies; the cultural function of horror film remakes; the expulsion of fear in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go and fear and nostalgia in Mohsin Hamid's post-9/11 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Fear in its many facets appears to constitute an intriguing and compelling subject matter for writers and screenwriters alike. The contributions address fictional representations and explorations of fear in different genres and different periods of literary and cultural history. The topics include representations of political violence and political fear in English Renaissance culture and literature; dramatic representations of fear and anxiety in English Romanticism; the dramatic monologue as an expression of fears in Victorian society; cultural constructions of fear and empathy in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876) and Jonathan Nasaw's Fear Itself (2003); facets of children's fears in twentieth- and twenty-first-century stream-of-consciousness fiction; the representation of fear in war movies; the cultural function of horror film remakes; the expulsion of fear in Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go and fear and nostalgia in Mohsin Hamid's post-9/11 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Prof. Dr. Marion Gymnich lehrt Anglistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn.
Prof. Dr. Uwe Baumann lehrt Anglistik: Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Universität Bonn.
Prof. Dr. Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp lehrt am Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie der Universität Bonn.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.11.2012 |
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Reihe/Serie | Representations & Reflections ; Band 008 |
Mitarbeit |
Herausgeber (Serie): Uwe Baumann, Marion Gymnich, Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp |
Zusatzinfo | mit 2 Abbildungen |
Verlagsort | Göttingen |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 163 x 245 mm |
Gewicht | 642 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | Anglistik • Angst • Angst/Literatur • Emotionsforschung • Englische Literatur • fear • Fear/Literature • Filmwissenschaft |
ISBN-10 | 3-8471-0050-5 / 3847100505 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-8471-0050-8 / 9783847100508 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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