AUC Philologica (Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica) is an academic journal published by Charles University. It publishes scholarly articles in a large number of disciplines (English, German, Greek and Latin, Oriental, Romance and Slavonic studies, as well as in phonetics and translation studies), both on linguistic and on literary and cultural topics. Apart from articles it publishes reviews of new academic books or special issues of academic journals.
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AUC PHILOLOGICA, Vol 2022 No 2 (2022), 67–77
Spatial and Sonic Monstrosities in William Hope Hodgson’s “The Whistling Room”
Petra Johana Poncarová
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2022.38
published online: 16. 03. 2023
abstract
The article focuses on the corpus of tales featuring “Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder” by the British author William Hope Hodgson, an influential figure in the history of horror, fantastic literature, and speculative fiction. Drawing both on classical works of criticism by Tzvetan Todorov and Dorothy Scarborough and on the rather scarce corpus of scholarship devoted to Hodgson himself, the essay analyses the employment of space and sound in “The Whistling Room”.
keywords: William Hope Hodgson; Thomas Carnacki; space; sound; Tzvetan Todorov
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