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“The Horror of Darkness”

, 2013
“Life,” so Gaston Bachelard writes in The Poetics of Space on a note of steadfast optimism, “begins well, it begins enclosed, protected, all warm in the bosom of the house.”1 To the critic, Bachelard’s remarks might be seen as emblematic of a kind of failure in phenomenology to think outside an anthropomor-phised cosmos, in which the endless void of ...
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A Guide to Responsible Scaring: What are the Limitations of Horror in Young Adult Fiction?

Leaf Journal
Through a close reading of recent Young Adult (YA) horror novels – including Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare; Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis; and I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea – as well as Dan Hunt’s own work-in-progress ...
Dan Hunt
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El horror en la literatura

Actio Nova, 2017
A partir del ensayo “Supernatural Horror in Literature”, de H. P. Lovecraft, hemos construido un modelo descriptivo coherente del género literario del horror con sus relaciones internas y externas, y que bien podría servir de punto de partida para ...
Fernando Darío González Grueso
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““The Horror! The Horror!”: Narrative Intersections between Gothic Fiction and the Embodied Experience of Chronic Pain and Disability in Christina Crosby’s A Body, Undone

Atlantis
In A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain (2016), Christina Crosby establishes a critical dialogue between horror fiction and her own experience of spinal cord injury and chronic neurological pain. In the chapter “The Horror!
Shadia Abdel-Rahman Téllez
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The Readers' Advisory Guide to Horror

As both an introductory guide for librarians just dipping their toes into the brackish water of scary fiction, as well as a fount of new ideas for horror-aware reference staff, Spratford's book is infernally appropriate.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright ...
Siegel Spratford, Becky.
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The (re)birth of pregnancy horror in Alice Lowe’s Prevenge

, 2018
How does the specifically female human experience of pregnancy change in its representation and utilisation in horror when the film is conceived, written, and directed by a woman?
Chambers, Amy
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Printing terror: American horror comics as cold war commentary and critique

, 2021
Printing Terror places horror comics of the Cold War in dialogue with the historical trauma of World War II and Vietnam, the rise of feminism, and the growth of the Civil Rights Movement. It rejects the narrative, prevalent throughout scholarship to date,
Smith, P, Goodrum, M.
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A Bioethical Assessment of the Environmental Impacts of War

Bioethics, EarlyView.
Funda Gülay Kadioglu
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Applied theory makeovers

Economica, EarlyView.
Abstract I argue that economists' distinction between ‘pure’ and ‘applied’ economic theory is often based on papers' stylistic markers rather than their methodology or scope. I illustrate this point with a model of price competition for boundedly rational consumers, due to Piccione and Spiegler. I first present its original, ‘pure style’ version.
Ran Spiegler
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‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working‐class households in late‐nineteenth and early twentieth‐century Britain

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
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