M·R·詹姆斯

蒙塔格·羅德斯·詹姆斯 OM FBA(英語:Montague Rhodes James,1862年8月1日—1936年6月12日)是一位英國作家、中世紀學者,劍橋大學國王學院(1905-1918)和伊頓學院(1918-1936)院長,也是劍橋大學的校長(1913-15)。

詹姆斯作為中世紀學者的工作受到高度重視,[1]但最令人難忘的是他的鬼故事,有些人認為他的作品是該類型的最佳。他為新世紀重新定義了鬼故事,放棄了許多前輩的哥特式陳詞濫調,使用了更現實的當代背景。然而,他的主人公和情節往往反映了他自己的尚古興趣,包含古文書、歴史遺物、史跡等元素。[2]因此,他被稱為 "尚古鬼故事"的鼻祖。[3]

延伸閱讀

  • Bleiler, E. F. The Checklist of Fantastic Literature. Shasta Publishers, 1948.
  • Bloom, Clive. "M. R. James and His Fiction." in Clive Bloom, ed., Creepers: British Horror and Fantasy in the Twentieth Century. London and Boulder CO: Pluto Press, 1993, pp. 64–71.
  • Cox, Michael. M. R. James: An Informal Portrait. Oxford University Press, 1983. ISBN 0-19-211765-3.
  • Haining, Peter. M. R. James: Book of the Supernatural. W. Foulsham, 1979. ISBN 0-572-01048-6
  • James, M. R. A Pleasing Terror: The Complete Supernatural Writings, ed. Christopher Roden and Barbara Roden. Ash-Tree Press, 2001. ISBN 1-55310-024-7.
  • Joshi, S. T. Introductions to Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories. Penguin Classics, 2005. ISBN 0-14-303939-3 and The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories. Penguin Classics, 2006. ISBN 0-14-303992-X.
  • Lubbock, S. G. A Memoir of Montague Rhodes James ... with a list of his writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1939. 
  • Murphy, Patrick J. Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press. 2017. ISBN 9780271077710. 
  • Pfaff, Richard William. Montague Rhodes James . London: Scolar Press. 1980. ISBN 0859675548.  (concentrates on his scholarly work)
  • Sullivan, Jack. Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story from Le Fanu to Blackwood. Ohio University Press, 1980. ISBN 0-8214-0374-5.
  • Tolhurst, Peter. East Anglia—a Literary Pilgrimage. Black Dog Books, Bungay, 1996. ISBN 0-9528839-0-2. (pp. 99–101).
  • Wagenknecht, Edward. Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction. Greenwood Press, 1991. ISBN 0-313-27960-8.
  • Weighell, Ron. Dark Devotions: M. R. James and the Magical Tradition頁面存檔備份,存於網際網路檔案館), Ghosts and Scholars 6 (1984):20–30

腳註

  1. ^ "After W.R. James." (1970) The Book Collector 19 no 1 spring: 7-20
  2. ^ 創元推理文庫『M.R.ジェイムズ傑作集』(1978年初版). 
  3. ^ Briggs, Julia (1986). "James, M(ontague) R(hodes)". In Sullivan, Jack, ed., The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural. New York: Viking Press. ISBN 0-670-80902-0

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