This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy—and presents ...
... weird fiction : M. P. Shiel , R. Murray Gilchrist , Count Stenbock , and ( especially ) Arthur Machen . I argue that the privileging of obscure authors over canonical or popular ones typical of weird fiction fits almost seamlessly ( and ...
A captivating, magical and haunting debut novel of breathtaking imagination, from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story Award LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 'That rare thing: genuinely unique' OBSERVER 'Will win ...
But there is another South, a stranger one unknown to outsiders, brimming just beneath the surface.These stories explore that hidden world-within-a-world.
A Genre Study Michael Cisco. is telling us that Margaret Clewer's condition is effectively congenital and hereditary ... obscure is made more conspicuous than what is plain; this models the way we glimpse the obscure side of ...
An accessible introduction to the study of popular music, this book takes a schematic approach to a range of popular music genres, and examines them in terms of their antecedents, histories, visual aesthetics, and sociopolitical contexts.
Featuring discussion of the works of: H. P. Lovecraft, H. G. Wells, M.R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and ...
... genre, charge the field of encounter between subject and language with unexpected potential. Stable and traditional ... obscure fiction which appears to be the result of an 'interference' with the message: (28) In such a model ...
In Strange Stars, Jason Heller recasts sci-fi and pop music as parallel cultural forces that depended on one another to expand the horizons of books, music, and out-of-this-world imagery.