Fear Representations (14 results)

Condition: new. Pages: 362 Language: English. This book deals with folk narratives expressing some of the basic fears of ancient Roman culture. These included, on the one hand, threats to the survival of the family, especially concerning children, pregnant women and to some extent also young men, and, on the other hand, the hidden dangers of the urban environment, especially places such as sewers, cemeteries, crossroads, inns and harbours. Human existence was precarious in many ways in antiquity: success could swiftly turn into misfortune, health into illness and death, with disastrous consequences for the most important social network in this era, the family. These misfortunes could be difficult to cope with, and adversity, calamity and death had to be made intelligible emotionally. By verbalizing fear - in the form of stories of demons, witches, ghosts and wild animals - it could be endowed with a concrete shape. The argument of this book proceeds from the assumption that the act of narrating stories helps us to make sense of our lives and the world we live in. In narrative, we articulate our emotions, thoughts and opinions, voice our hopes and desires, our anxieties and fears. The therapeutic power of stories lies in their ability to provide a space for reflection on the difficulties and anxieties in life. The concept of emotional topography is introduced as an analytical tool in studying the relation between space, emotions and time. Certain places were associated with one range of emotions during the day and another at night, such as a cemetery, which at night evoked dread and disgust. Other places, such as for example inns, could evoke a sense of unease regardless of the time of day; they were places where horrendous things might take place, where you risked encountering everything from murderous inn-keepers to werewolves. 9789514111563. …

Large-8°, original hardcover. 1. ed. 294 p. Very fine copy. Sprache: Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, 294 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Minor handling wear only. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This volume explores the many dimensions of fear as represented in Anglophone literature and film. The essays analyse fear as both a personal emotion and a broader cultural and political phenomenon, showing how stories and cinematic works depict, process and critique different forms of anxiety across historical periods and genres. Throughout, the book demonstrates how literature and film make visible the workings of anxiety, whether rooted in power structures, trauma, social expectations or global crises. It highlights narrative's capacity to expose fear's mechanisms and to explore possibilities for confronting or reimagining it. Rather than treating fear as a single, stable emotion, the volume emphasises its facets - the distinct ways in which dread, anxiety, terror and horror operate depending on narrative form, historical context and cultural setting. The contributions examine how fear functions as a narrative engine, a tool of social control, a marker of cultural difference and a means of exploring what lies at the boundaries of the expressible. This makes the collection useful not only for readers interested in horror as a genre but for anyone concerned with how literature and film engage with negative affect more broadly - from the anxieties embedded in post-9/11 fiction to the longer tradition of the gothic and its mutations in contemporary culture. In the current climate of persistent political instability, social division, terrorism and existential threats, these studies provide useful frameworks for understanding how stories reflect and influence emotional and cultural responses to fear. The book is particularly relevant for students and researchers in literary studies, film studies and cultural theory who examine the representation of emotion and narrative's role in society. -- Contents: Fictions of Fear - Representations of Fear in Anglophone Literature and Audiovisual Media / Marion Gymnich; Ruling by Fear / Ruled by Fear: Representations of Political Violence and Political Fear in English Renaissance Culture and Literature / Uwe Baumann; Romanticism, Anxiety and Dramatic Representation / Andrea Rummel; The Dramatic Monologue and the Preservation of Victorian Fears / Gislind Rohwer-Happe; Cultural Constructions of Fear and Empathy: The Emotional Structure of Relationships in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876) and Jonathan Nasaw's Fear Itself (2003) / Stella Butter; Facets of Children's Fears in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Stream-of-Consciousness Fiction / Sara Straufi; Fearing, Loathing: Robert Lowell, Hunter S. Thompson and the Rise of Richard Nixon / Marcel Inhoff; Fight or Flight - Fear in War Movies / Klaus Scheunemann; Remaking Fear: The Cultural Function of Horror Film Remakes / Christian Knoppler; 'A Little Gasp Went Around [.] Like a Scream' - The Use of Time-Tried Motifs of Fear in Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle and Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds / Elena Baeva; Nothing to be Frightened of? The Expulsion of Fear in Kazuo Ishiguro's Novel Never Let Me Go / Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz; 'Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America' - Fear and Nostalgia in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist / Nina Liewald; 'Timor mortis conturbat me. Fear of death disturbs me' - Fear and Terror in Frank McGuinness' Speaking like Magpies / Imke Lichterfeld; Fear of Death in J.G. Ballard's Crash / Antonio Wojahn; Contributors.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 362 p. Includes: index, bibliography. "This book deals with folk narratives expressing some of the basic fears of ancient Roman culture. These included, on the one hand, threats to the survival of the family, especially concerning children, pregnant women and to some extent also young men, and, on the other hand, the hidden dangers of the urban environment, especially places such as sewers, cemeteries, crossroads, inns and harbours. Human existence was precarious in many ways in antiquity: success could swiftly turn into misfortune, health into illness and death, with disastrous consequences for the most important social network in this era, the family. These misfortunes could be difficult to cope with, and adversity, calamity and death had to be made intelligible emotionally. By verbalizing fear-in the form of stories of demons, witches, ghosts and wild animals-it could be endowed with a concrete shape. The argument of this book proceeds from the assumption that the act of narrating stories helps us to make sense of our lives and the world we live in. In narrative, we articulate our emotions, thoughts and opinions, voice our hopes and desires, our anxieties and fears. The therapeutic power of stories lies in their ability to provide a space for reflection on the difficulties and anxieties in life. The concept of emotional topography is introduced as an analytical tool in studying the relation between space, emotions and time. Certain places were associated with one range of emotions during the day and another at night, such as a cemetery, which at night evoked dread and disgust. Other places, such as for example inns, could evoke a sense of unease regardless of the time of day; they were places where horrendous things might take place, where you risked encountering everything from murderous inn-keepers to werewolves.".…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Black Peril, White Fear | Representations of Violence and Race in South Africa's English Press, 1976-2002, and Their Influence on Public Opinion | Christine Ullmann | Taschenbuch | 412 S. | Englisch | 2015 | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing | EAN 9783659692550 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.…

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This book explores the cultural history of the 'dragon-slaying' motif as it appears in both film and literature, examining representations of fear and heroism through this lens. Published by Sairyusha as part of the Figure Sai series, it delves into the symbolism and enduring appeal of dragon-slaying narratives. Note: The text is entirely in Japanese. Brand New Japanese Edition. Ships worldwide from Japan via Japan Post. Expedited shipping via FedEx available.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This is an attempt at uncovering to which extent and in what way the reporting on violence in South Africa's English language press between 1976 and 2002 has influenced white South Africans' views of their country. Throughout the period under investigation, newspapers approached violence with racial concepts in mind. Their (largely white) in-group and the (mainly black) out-group were shown to be facing each other from opposite ends of the good-bad spectrum, and the concept of violence was lexicalised accordingly. My research confirmed that white South Africans' attitudes towards violence display a striking resemblance to this view. This suggests that the newspapers did more than inform their readers about the world. Their choice of subjects frequently influenced how South Africans defined violence and their way of approaching these subjects was important in constituting the public's view of them. It is therefore beyond doubt that the English language press helped to structure and limit people's interpretive frameworks. They worked to define what was seen as violence and provided the language to describe the individual incidents. They constituted reality; made history so to speak.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. The Sexual Politics of Jane Eyre | Representations of Fear and the Construction of Text in Charlotte Bront¿'s Jane Eyre | Erskine | Buch | Writers and Their Contexts | Gebunden | Englisch | 2021 | Edward Everett Root | EAN 9781913087258 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand. …