The weird and the eerie

Fisher, Mark, 1968-2017, author.

Book 2016

"What exactly are the 'weird' and the 'eerie'? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the most haunting and anomalous fiction of the 20th century belongs to these two modes. The 'weird' and the 'eerie' are closely related but distinct modes, each possessing its own distinct properties. Both have often been associated with Horror, yet this emphasis overlooks the aching fascination that such texts can exercise. The 'weird' and the 'eeri...

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Fiction 20th century History and criticism

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ISBN:

9781910924389
1910924385

Edition:

A Repeater Books paperback original

Description:

133 pages ; 20 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132), discography (page 132) and videography (pages 133-134)

Contents:

Introduction : the weird and the eerie (beyond unheimlich)
The weird. The out of place and the out of time: lovecraft and the weird
The weird against the worldly: H.G. Wells
"Body a tentacle mess": the grotesque and the weird: The Fall
Caught in the coils of ouroboros: Tim Powers
Simulations and the unworlding: Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Philip K. Dick
Curtains and holes: David Lynch
The eerie. Approaching the eerie
Something where there should be nothing: nothing where there should be something: Daphne du Maurier and Christopher Priest
On vanishing land: M.R. James and Eno
Eerie Thanatos: Nigel Kneale and Alan Garner
Inside out: outside in: Margaret Atwood and Jonathan Glazer
Alien traces: Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Christopher Nolan
"...The eerieness remains": Joan Lindsay

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2057184

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