Better Horrors: From Terror to Communion in Whitley Strieber�s Communion (1987)

• Localización: Social research: An international quarterly of the social sciences, ISSN 0037-783X, Nº. 4, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Endangered Scholars Worldwide), págs. 897-920
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Trauma, Trick, and Transcendence in the Life of a Horror Writer: The Case of Whitley Strieber This essay treats the theorization of horror in Whitley Strieber�s Communion (1987). It also pushes us to consider more honestly and forthrightly the question of �real monsters,� that is, the phenomenology of encounters with fantastic presences routinely experienced in the environment. Historical contextualization of Strieber�s abduction experiences in the Hudson Valley region and theories of other species from Charles Fort to William James are invoked to radicalize the question further