1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452266203321

Titolo

Alternative voices [[electronic resource]] : (re)searching language, culture, identity ... / / edited by S. Imtiaz Hasnain, Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta and Shailendra Mohan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England, : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, c2013

ISBN

1-4438-4998-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Imtiaz HasnainS

Bagga-GuptaSangeeta

MohanShailendra

Disciplina

401.9

Soggetti

Language and culture

Ethnicity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF TABLES; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CHAPTER NINETEEN; CHAPTER TWENTY; CHAPTER TWENTY ONE; CHAPTER TWENTY TWO; CHAPTER TWENTY THREE; CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR; CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE; CHAPTER TWENTY SIX; CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This edited volume presents Alternative Voices in the contexts of present-day and historical globalisation, the emergence of the knowledge society, increased global-local or glocal migration flows, the explosion of social media, and disparate regional growth that have both impacted and shaped the sociocultural fabric of geopolitical spaces across the world. The volume builds upon twenty-seven contributions that focus upon issues related to language, culture and



identity from a multidisciplinary nexus of historical, philosophical and empirically-based traditions. Positioned in post-colonial emi

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910247446603321

Autore

Wilson Eric Michael <1961->

Titolo

The Republic of Cthulhu: Lovecraft, the Weird Tale, and Conspiracy Theory / by Eric Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2016

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020

©2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)

Soggetti

Structuralism (Literary analysis)

Conspiracy theories in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-183).

Nota di contenuto

Gods and monsters -- The criminology of the nameless : parapolitics and Alētheia -- From the sublime : "The call of Cthulhu" (1926) -- To the grotesque : "The horror at Red Hook" (1925) -- N. Lat. 40.7117°, W. Long. 74.0125° 08:46-09:03 AM, September 11, 2001 -- Conclusion : the doom that came to humanism.

Sommario/riassunto

If parapolitics, a branch of radical criminology that studies the interactions between public entities and clandestine agencies, is to develop as an academic discipline, then it must develop a coherent theory of aesthetics in order to successfully perform its primary function: to render perceptible extra-judicial phenomena that have hitherto resisted formal classification.Wilson offers the work of H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) as an example of the relevance of subversive literature--in this case, cosmic horror and the weird tale--to the parapolitical criminologist. Cosmic horror is a form of writing that relies heavily upon the epistemological assumption of a radical and



irreconcilable disjunction between appearance and reality, perception and truth. In many ways, the well-constructed weird tale strongly resembles the hard-boiled detective story or the noir thriller in that the resolution of the narrative hinges upon a dramatically shattering confrontation with an unspeakable reality. Apart from its obvious utilization of conspiracy theory, the primary attraction of the Lovecraftian text lies with its remarkably sophisticated utilization of two central tropes of classical aesthetic theory--the sublime and the grotesque. Not only does Lovecraft's oeuvre represent a remarkable use of both of these motifs, but the raw literary power of the Lovecraftian weird tale serves as an outstanding exemplar for the parapolitical scholar to emulate in formulating an alternative mode of discourse, or poetics.