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dc.contributor.authorJones, Timothyen_UK
dc.contributor.editorDelaney, Pen_UK
dc.contributor.editorHunter, Aen_UK
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-15T04:53:18Z-
dc.date.available2018-02-15T04:53:18Z-
dc.date.issued2018-12-31en_UK
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dc.description.abstractFirst paragraph: To offer a history or even a definition of the weird tale risks unweirding it, potentially placing an unearthly and sometimes wide-eyed literature too squarely in the world. The weird, perhaps more than most categories, exists between periods, nations and movements, while regularly narrating events that break with the particular circumstances of history. The weird tale begins somewhere in the world, but often departs, or glimpses a departure, from it. That departure is also visible in the ongoing reception of the weird. Shaped by the practices of magazine publication and anthologisation, readers have been encouraged to take the weird tale out of historical context. Readers who have no interest in American literature in the twenties and thirties more generally will nevertheless happily devour the works of H.P. Lovecraft without needing to connect them to the American twenties and thirties. This unworldly placelessness is one of the distinguishing features of the weird. Mark Fisher suggests the weird and the eerie (a term Fisher associates with, and distinguishes from, the weird) are preoccupied ‘with the… strange – not the horrific. The allure that the weird and the eerie possess is not captured by the idea that we “enjoy what scares us”. It has, rather, to do with a fascination for the outside, for that which lies beyond standard perception, cognition and experience.’ Perception, cognition and experience exist within history; the weird potentially offers a glimpse of something outside. In doing this, it often becomes preoccupied with mysterious or unauthorised forms of knowing and knowledge. Intuition becomes at least as important as ratiocination, and occult tomes hold the weight of accepted philosophies. The weird can be difficult to make sense of, suggesting both a recognisable human feeling and a literature of illegible and inhuman circumstance.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherEdinburgh University Pressen_UK
dc.relationJones T (2018) The Weird Tale. In: Delaney P & Hunter A (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in English. Edinburgh Companions to Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 160-174. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-short-story-in-english-hb.htmlen_UK
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEdinburgh Companions to Literatureen_UK
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dc.subjectWeirden_UK
dc.subjectWeird Talesen_UK
dc.subjectEdgar Allan Poeen_UK
dc.subjectHP Lovecraften_UK
dc.subjectCaitlin R Kiernanen_UK
dc.subjectShirley Jacksonen_UK
dc.subjectJanet Frameen_UK
dc.subjectIsak Dinesenen_UK
dc.subjectJorge Luis Borgesen_UK
dc.subjectJanet Frameen_UK
dc.subjectClive Barkeren_UK
dc.subjectJohn Collieren_UK
dc.subjectRay Bradburyen_UK
dc.subjectpostcolonialen_UK
dc.subjectshort storyen_UK
dc.subjectfictionen_UK
dc.subjectgenreen_UK
dc.subjectTransatlanticen_UK
dc.subjectpublishingen_UK
dc.titleThe Weird Taleen_UK
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dc.author.emailtimothy.jones@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.citation.btitleThe Edinburgh Companion to the Short Story in Englishen_UK
dc.citation.isbn9781474400657en_UK
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dc.contributor.affiliationEnglish Studiesen_UK
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