Affiliation:
1. University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Ethnology and Anthropology
Abstract
This paper is an attempt to analyze three horror classics - Algernon
Blackwood?s ?The Willows? (1907), Clark Ashton Smith?s ?Genius Loci? (1936)
and Ramsey Campbell?s ?The Voice of the Beach? (1977) - in which the
landscape is envisioned as the abode of supernatural power. The common
thread between these stories is the concept of natural scenery which merges
and blends the real and unreal, the mind, flesh and the phenomenal world. As
landscape is a major component of the plot, rather than mere background to
the stories, the authors use it to formulate certain metaphysical ideas
about existence and the nature of reality itself. My objective is to
historically and epistemologically contextualize these ideas, clarify them
and relate them to particular recent developments in philosophy and social
theory. My second aim is to examine the semantics of space particular to
each narrative, the association and partition of its structural elements,
and the latent level of meaning arising from the organization of the
stories? mise-en-sc?ne.
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
Subject
Sociology and Political Science,Philosophy
Reference47 articles.
1. Armitt, Lucie (2018), “Haunted Landscapes”, in Scott Brewster, Luke Thruston (eds.), The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story, New York: Routledge, pp. 291-301.
2. Berlin, Isaiah (2012), The Roots of Romanticism, Princeton: Prinecton UP.
3. Bernanos, Michel (1938), The Other Side of the Mountain, Providence: Berg.
4. Blackwood, Algernon (1917), The Listener and Other Stories, New York: Alfred A. Knope.
5. Burke, Edmund (1764), A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin Of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall.