Tag Archives: Animals
New book: Ruth Heholt and Melissa Edmundson (eds.), Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out
This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Darwin, Donna Haraway, ecocriticism, Gothic, nature
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CFPs: Gothic times, Gothic nature, Gothic realities
Some exciting conferences coming up! 1. Gothic Manchester Festival Conference 2019 ‘Gothic Times’, Manchester Metropolitan University, 26 October 2019. Deadline: 30 July 2019. In the opening decades of the twenty-first century, with Trump in the White House and Brexit on … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, ecoGothic, ecohorror, environment, Film, games, Gothic, graphic novels, History, literature, nature, reality, temporality, TV
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CFP: Gothic Nature: New Directions in Eco-horror and the EcoGothic, Trinity College Dublin, 17-18 November 2017
We’ve posted the CFP recently, but there is now a website for this inspiring conference on Gothic Nature: New Directions in Eco-horror and the EcoGothic at Trinity College Dublin. The deadline for proposals was the 2 April 2017. Gothic and horror … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, eco-Gothic, ecocriticism, ecohorror, Gothic, nature
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Angela Carter’s The Tiger’s Bride – Oxford Playhouse, 11-16 September 2017
Marvellous Machine will be performing their stage adaptation of Angela Carter’s ‘The Tiger’s Bride’ at the Oxford Playhouse, 11-16 September 2017. ‘The Tiger’s Bride’ is one of Carter’s marvellous transformations of the ‘Beauty and the Beast’ tale in her famous … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, Angela Carter, Animals, Beauty and the Beast, fairy tale, theatre
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CFP: Gothic Nature: New Directions in Eco-horror and the EcoGothic, Trinity College Dublin, 17-18 November 2017
CFP for a conference in Dublin, 17-18 November on Gothic Nature: New Directions in Eco-horror and the EcoGothic (deadline 2 April 2017): Gothic and horror fictions have long functioned as vivid reflections of contemporary cultural fears. Wood argues that horror … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, eco-Gothic, ecocriticism, ecohorror, horror, landscape, Space
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Generation Dead: The Shiver Workshop
This post is a little late (mainly due to the distractions of moving house and trying to teach myself basic plumbing skills alongside managing a PhD and moonlighting as a tour guide at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre) so apologies for my … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Generation Dead: YA Fiction and the Gothic news
Tagged Animals, ecoGothic, gender, Generation Dead, Genre, Gothic, J.K. Rowling, lycanthropes, lycanthropy, Maggie Stiefvater, Paranormal romance, sexuality, Shiver, the animal, the Other, werewolf, Werewolves, Wolves, YA Gothic
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‘Ravens and Their Cultural Significance Throughout Time’ Blog Post
A post on the IGA Student Blog site has recently caught my eye. Written by Jamie Ryder, it looks at ‘Ravens and Their Cultural Significance Throughout Time’. Though I tend to look more at wolves as a Gothic creature or ecoGothic … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles
Tagged Animals, ecoGothic, Gothic, Gothic literature, Gothic novels, Gothic texts, IGA, nature, ravens
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Animals Conferences and CFPs
For those of you who are interested in animal studies, ecocriticism and ecoGothic, there are a couple of conferences that caught my eye recently. The first is ‘Animal Biographies – Recovering Animal Selfhood through Interdisciplinary Narration?’ (9th-11th March 2016, University of … Continue reading
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Tagged animal studies, Animals, CFP, Conferences, ecocriticism, ecoGothic, humanity, monstrosity, myth, mythology
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‘How to Recognise a Werewolf in the Nineteenth Century’ by Will Pooley
This well researched post, ‘How to Recognise a Werewolf in the Nineteenth Century’, on the Beastly Histories blog is a very interesting read. (Actually the whole of the blog is pretty exciting so get ready to lose a few hours … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles, Critical thoughts
Tagged adaptation, aesthetics, animality, Animals, Nineteenth century, translation, Werewolves
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Black Dogs and Hell Hounds
Ted Hughes described this time of year as ‘The month of the drowned dog’ in his evocative poem ‘November’ where after long rain ‘the land was sodden as the bed of an ancient lake/ Treed with iron and was bird … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, black dog, Folklore, hell hound
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