Isbn: 9780812692259 - horror and the holy: wisdom-teachings of the monster tale (10 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: very good. La Salle, IL. : Open Court,1993. Paperback. xiv,150 pp. ills. Index. Bibliography. - Throughout history, human beings have been strangely fascinated by the monstrous and the macabre. In Horror and the Holy, a study of the classic horror story, Kirk Schneider explains the compelling power of such tales as a result of our thirst for the sacred, and identifies elements of the holy in familiar blood-curdling yarns. True horror arises when the mundane becomes unexpected and when the contained breaks free of its confining chains to become unlimited. Anything boundless tends to become terrifying, argues Schneider. It is infinitude which draws us to the unsavory, infinitude that lurks behind dread. Sheer bliss, paradise, or Nirvana therefore always has the potential to turn into horror, as limits fall away and the boundless expanses of infinity open up. While ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite, terror is full disclosure. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780812692259. Keywords : , horror, classic.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dr. Schneider draws upon a detailed and telling analysis of eleven well-known horror stories: Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Invisible Man, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Birds, Forbidden Planet, Vertigo, and Alien. He finds that a spiritual understanding of life can be attained through horror. Classic horror steers a middle path between fanaticism and despair: the path of wonderment. Horror teaches us that the human personality is paradoxical, that revulsion and disgust are the obverse of excitement and freedom, and that both poles are vital to individual, social, and ecological well-being. …

Zustand: New. Through a study of a number of classic horror stories, this work argues that spiritual understanding of life can be reached through horror that it steers a path between fanaticism and despair - the path of wonderment and that revulsion and disgust are the.

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