TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carl H. Sederholm
AU  - Kristopher Woofter
PY  - 2025
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2631-8725
SN  - 9781803741390
TI  - The Weird
T2  - A Companion
DO  - 10.3726/b20688
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1321928
N2  - Weird works unsettle, decentering humanity on a cosmic scale and, at other times, breaking down the human barriers erected around race, class, gender, and sexuality. Featuring a comprehensive editors’ introduction to the Weird as a mode engaging with forms of knowledge, transcendence, and resistance, this collection offers a broad-reaching discussion of Weird fiction, film, art, and thought. Its 31 essays explore theoretical and philosophical applications of the Weird, such as Black Metal Theory, and key Weird themes and tropes such as cosmic horror, radical embodiment and sensation, dark ecological speculation, and forms of alterity. Essays are highly varied in period focus and subject matter, ranging from early Weird works by William Hope Hodgson and Conan creator Robert E. Howard, to the surrealist paintings of Leonora Carrington, to more recent works by David Lynch, Octavia Butler, and Yorgos Lanthimos.
KW  - alterity, ambiguity, anthropocene, apocalypse, cosmic horror, ecology, epistemology, feminism, fine arts, folk horror, gaming, genre, Gothic, horror, Indigeneity, literature, moving image, New Weird, philosophy, theory, traveling theory, queer, Weird
LA  - English
ER  -