Horror y Terror

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Horror and Terror

 

 

Aikin, Helena, and María José Feu. "The 'Non-Container Schema' as a Literary Device in Horror Fiction: A Cognitive Analysis of the Ctulhu Monster." In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference of AEDEAN (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglonorteamericanos). Lleida, 17-19 December 1998. Ed. Pere Gallardo and Enric Llurda. Lleida: Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida, 2000. 105-10.*

Caraher, Brian. Trespassing Tragedy: Melodramas of Horror. Houndmills: Macmillan, 2000.

Carroll, Noël. The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart. London: Routledge, 1990.

Clasen, Mathias. "The Horror! The Horror!" The Evolutionary Review 1 (2010): 112-19.*

Clemens, Valdine. “Precedents for ‘Gothic’ Fear: Medieval Life, Jacobean Drama, and Eighteenth-Century Attitudes.” In Clemens,The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Horror from The Castle of Otranto to Alien. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999. 15-28.*

Falke, Cassandra. "16. Reading Terror: Imagining Violent Acts through the Rational or Narrative Sublime." In Storytelling and Ethics: Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Nature. Ed. Hanna Meretoja and Colin Davis. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. 253-66.*

Garrison, Joseph M., Jr. "The Function of Terror in the Work of Edgar Allan Poe." American Quarterly 18 (1966).

Heller, Terry. The Delights of Terror. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987.*

Jancovich, Mark. Horror. London: Batsford, 1992.

Kiely, Robert. The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years of Scary Entertainment. New York: Grove Weidenfield, 1991.

Lyotard, Jean-Fronçois. "Terror on the Run." Trans. Philip Wood and Graham Harris. In Terror and Consensus: Vicissitudes of French Thought. Ed. Jean-Joseph Goux and Philip R. Wood. Stanford (CA), 1998.

Koch, Walter A. The Wells of Tears: A Bio-Semiotic Essay on the Roots of Horror, Comic and Pathos. Bochum: Norbert Brockmeyer, 1989.

Kristeva, Julia. Pouvoirs de l’horreur: Essai sur l’abjection. Paris: Seuil, 1980.

Modleski, Tania. “The Terror of Pleasure: The Contemporary Horror Film and Postmodern Theory.” 1986. In Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. 5th ed. Ed. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. 691-700.*

Newman, Judie. Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction. (Transnational Perspectives on American Literature Series). London and New York: Routledge,  2013.

Twitchell, James. “The Psychological Attraction of Horror.” In Twitchell, Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror. New York: Oxford UP, 1985. 65-104.*

 

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Chekhov, Anton. "Terror (Relato de un amigo)." 1892. In Chekhov (Anton Chéjov), Cuentos. Ed. and trans. Víctor Gallego Ballestero. Barcelona: Alba, 2005. 5th ed. 2009. 525-38.*

Llopis, Rafael. Antología de cuentos de terror, 1: De Daniel Defoe a Edgar Allan Poe (LB 832), 2. De Dickens a M.R. James (LB 868), 3. De Machen a Lovecraft. (LB 914). Madrid: Alianza Editorial.

Machen, Arthur. The Terror: A Fantasy. Novel. 1917.

_____. El terror. Trans. Luis Loayza. (El Libro de Bolsillo, 1092). Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1985.*

 

 

 

 

 

See also Gothic, Horror (fiction); Horror films; Monsters; Vampires; Serial killers.