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Arthur Machen

Critical Essays

Av Antonio Sanna

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Arthur Machen: Critical Essays offers a study of the works by Arthur Machen (1863-1947), the Welsh writer who has attracted a cult following for decades, especially among fans and scholars of weird fiction and Gothic studies. These essays take readers into different areas and address several topics in Machen's literary production: the literary, the artistic, the scientific, the religious, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The twelve chapters constituting the volume examine the representation of human beings in the writer's works and their relationship with the surrounding environment, whether it is the omnipresent London or the mysterious, menacing nature. The contributors also interpret Machen's writings through a series of disciplines and academic theories that were contemporary to the writer (such as paleontology and medicine) and demonstrate how he was influenced by the scientific discourses of his time and reproduced them in his works. The last section of the volume considers Machen's interest in the occult and mysticism and the religious themes present in many of his works.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-04-21
  • Mått: 164 x 228 x 26 mm
  • Vikt: 594 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 276
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • ISBN: 9781793635464
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Antonio Sanna is a support teacher in Sassari, Italy.

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Although praised by many, including Stephen King, Arthur Machen’s work remains a niche interest (with some exceptions) largely overshadowed by work of other late-19th- and early-20th-century writers of the supernatural and gothic. In the introduction to this book Sanna provides a thorough introduction to Machen’s life and work. This is followed by a dozen careful essays grouped into three sections: “Human Beings and Their Environments,” “Darwinism and Degeneration," and “Spirituality." Two of Machen’s most familiar texts, The Great God Pan and “The Bowmen,” are treated in separate essays, but the volume is more valuable for the discussions of Machan’s less-known work—his detective stories, his prose poetry, and some of his other novels... Sanna’s own contribution, “Heterotopic Spaces in Machen’s Fiction,” invokes Foucault in a sophisticated treatment of alternative worlds. Although Machen died in 1947, this collection leaves one with the sense that he was well rooted in fin de siècle decadence.

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