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| 809.9112 LEW Cambridge introduction to modernism | 809.912 AUR Mimesis : the representation of reality in Western literature | 809.9145 LAR Romantic legacy | 809.916 CAR The Philosophy of Horror : Or, Paradoxes of the Heart. | 809.918 NEW Irony on occasion : from Schlegel and Kierkegaard to Derrida and de Man | 809.923 RIC Time and narrative. Volume I | 809.923 RIC Time and narrative. Volume II |
Includes Index.
Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student of the horror genre, Carroll brings to bear his comprehensive knowledge of obscure and forgotten works, as well as of the horror masterpieces. Working from a philosophical perspective, he tries to account for how people can find pleasure in having their wits scared out of them. What, after all, are those "paradoxes of the heart" that make us want to be horrified?
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