Arthur Machen

Critical Essays
Herausgeber: Sanna, Antonio

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Produktbeschreibung

Arthur Machen: Critical Essays studies the works of Arthur Machen in twelve essays, exploring different aspects of the literary production of the Welsh writer who has won the readers and the critics' attention with works such as "The Great God Pan," "The Terror," and "The Angels of Mons."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9781793635464
• ISBN-10: 1793635463
• Artikelnr.: 61184217

Autorenporträt

Edited by Antonio Sanna - Contributions by Amanda M. Caleb; Francesco Corigliano; Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns; Emiliano Aguilar; Justin Mullis; Jessica George; Kostas Boyiopoulos; Loredana Salis; Laura Mauro; Adrian Tait; Deborah Bridle; Geoffrey Reite

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Arthur Machen: His Life, His Works, and His Critics
Antonio Sanna
Part I: Human Beings and Their Environments
Chapter 1: 'A London cognita and a London incognita': Contesting London in
Arthur Machen's The London Adventure, or the Art of Wandering
Amanda M. Caleb
Chapter 2: The Problem of Agency in Arthur Machen's The Terror
Francesco Corigliano
Chapter 3: Heterotopic Spaces in Machen's Fiction
Antonio Sanna
Chapter 4: Dead Matter: Posthumanism and Stones
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar
Part II: Darwinism and Degeneration
Chapter 5: Fear and Fossils: The Legacy of Arthur Machen's 'Little People'
Stories
Justin Phillip Mullis
Chapter 6: 'Dissolution and Change': Reading The Great God Pan as Monstrous
Adaptation
Jessica George
Chapter 7: Lucian's Ornaments in Jade: Symbolist Decadence in Arthur
Machen's Prose Poetry
Kostas Boyiopoulos
Chapter 8: 'A Substance as Jelly': Helen Vaughan as Infectious Pathogen in
The Great God Pan
Loredana Salis and Laura Mauro
Part III: Spirituality
Chapter 9: '[A] mystic, ineffable force and energy': Arthur Machen and
Theories of New Materialism
Adrian Tait
Chapter 10: Occult Investigations in Arthur Machen's Detective Stories
Deborah Bridle
Chapter 11: Through the Ancient Wood: Envisioning Apophatic Mysticism in A
Fragment of Life
Geoffrey Reiter
Chapter 12: A 'Miracle' In No Man's Land?: Arthur Machen and the Angels of
Mons
Andrew R. Lenoir