Weird realism

Freeman, Nick

Weird realism

journal contribution

posted on 2017-08-11, 12:45 authored by Nick FreemanNick Freeman

This essay examines the relationship between weird fiction and forms of realist practice. It argues that realism’s concerns with exteriority and detail make it peculiarly suitable for (and receptive to) ‘weirding’, a claim explored in readings of fiction by Robert Aickman (1914–1981) and M. John Harrison (b.1945).

History

School

The Arts, English and Drama

Department

English and Drama

Published in

Textual Practice

Volume

31

Issue

6

Pages

1 - 15 (15)

Citation

FREEMAN, N., 2017. Weird realism. Textual Practice, 31 (6), pp. 1117-1132.

Publisher

Version

AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-07-13

Publication date

2017

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Textual Practice on 01 Aug 2017, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2017.1358691