Spatial and Sonic Monstrosities in William Hope Hodgson’s “The Whistling Room”
Spatial and Sonic Monstrosities in William Hope Hodgson’s “The Whistling Room”
Author(s): Petra Johana PoncarováSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, British Literature
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: William Hope Hodgson; Thomas Carnacki; space; sound; Tzvetan Todorov
Summary/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”.
Journal: Acta Universitatis Carolinae Philologica
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 67-77
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
