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The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, das Unheimliche and sociology: Horror literature in the dispute on what is recognized as real

Publication date: 2023

Studia Religiologica, 2023, Volume 56 Issue 1, pp. 1 - 16

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.23.001.19223

Authors

Andrzej Kasperek
University of Silesia in Katowice
, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1466-5153 Orcid
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Titles

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, das Unheimliche and sociology: Horror literature in the dispute on what is recognized as real

Abstract

The article is an attempt to analyze The Willows by Algernon Blackwood in terms of the sociological concept of multiple realities. Trying to answer the question of how people experience reality, due attention will be paid to the literary description of the situation in which a human being is confronted with a reality that terrifies and disturbs. Literature in general, including horror literature, is treated here as an important, from the cognitive standpoint, platform for discussion about human experiences, which, following Sigmund Freud, can be described as uncanny. I treat Blackwood’s The Willows as a reconstruction of the dispute over the legitimacy of knowledge and the sources of cognition in the conditions of a specific epistemological (categorical) chaos in the face of experiencing the uncanny.

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Information: Studia Religiologica, 2023, Volume 56 Issue 1, pp. 1 - 16

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, das Unheimliche and sociology: Horror literature in the dispute on what is recognized as real

English:

The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, das Unheimliche and sociology: Horror literature in the dispute on what is recognized as real

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1466-5153

Andrzej Kasperek
University of Silesia in Katowice
, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1466-5153 Orcid
All publications →

University of Silesia in Katowice
Poland

Published at: 2023

Article status: Open

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