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What better guide could there be than the ever-incisive Tally to this brave new world of gods, monsters, dystopias, apocalypses, tattered maps, gold-bearing rubble, and, well, monsters? Welcome to the Teratocene!
What better guide could there be than the ever-incisive Tally to this brave new world of gods, monsters, dystopias, apocalypses, tattered maps, gold-bearing rubble, and, well, monsters? Welcome to the Teratocene!
From Neil Gaiman and NAFTA to panoptic surveillance in Black Mirror, and from monsters in children's literature to the post-apocalyptic landscapes of modern cinema, Robert T. Tally Jr. in The Fiction of Dread diagnoses the morbid symptoms of contemporary narrative preoccupations. Through attention to dystopian themes, multiplying monsters, and the end of the world, Tally presents a wide-ranging, clearly written, and extremely insightful analysis of the appeal of dreadful things and the kind of critical work they do in helping us attempt to grasp the complexities of our world and imagine other, better possibilities.
Robert T. Tally Jr. is Professor of English at Texas State University. His recent books include The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies (2023); For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists (2022); J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy (2022); Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019); Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectic Criticism (2014); Poe and the Subversion of American Literature (2014); Spatiality (2013); Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel (2011); and Melville, Mapping, and Globalization (2009). Tally is also the editor of the Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies book series.
What better guide could there be than the ever-incisive Tally to this brave new world of gods, monsters, dystopias, apocalypses, tattered maps, gold-bearing rubble, and, well, monsters? Welcome to the Teratocene!
From Neil Gaiman and NAFTA to panoptic surveillance in Black Mirror, and from monsters in children's literature to the post-apocalyptic landscapes of modern cinema, Robert T. Tally Jr. in The Fiction of Dread diagnoses the morbid symptoms of contemporary narrative preoccupations. Through attention to dystopian themes, multiplying monsters, and the end of the world, Tally presents a wide-ranging, clearly written, and extremely insightful analysis of the appeal of dreadful things and the kind of critical work they do in helping us attempt to grasp the complexities of our world and imagine other, better possibilities.
Robert T. Tally Jr. is Professor of English at Texas State University. His recent books include The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies (2023); For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists (2022); J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy (2022); Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019); Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectic Criticism (2014); Poe and the Subversion of American Literature (2014); Spatiality (2013); Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel (2011); and Melville, Mapping, and Globalization (2009). Tally is also the editor of the Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies book series.