M. R. James

M. R. James

M. R. James pada sekitar tahun 1900
M. R. James pada sekitar tahun 1900
LahirMontague Rhodes James
(1862-08-01)1 Agustus 1862
Goodnestone, Kent, Inggris
Meninggal12 Juni 1936(1936-06-12) (umur 73)
Eton, Buckinghamshire, Inggris
Nama penaM. R. James
PekerjaanPenulis, cendekiawan
KebangsaanInggris
AlmamaterKing's College, Cambridge
Genre

Montague Rhodes James OM FBA (1 Agustus 1862 – 12 Juni 1936) adalah seorang cendekiawan medievalist dan pengarang asal inggris yang menjabat sebagai provost King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), dan Eton College (1918–1936) serta Wakil Kanselir Universitas Cambridge (1913–1915). Karya pembelajaran James masih sangat dihargai,[1] namun ia lebih dikenal karena cerita-cerita hantu buatannya, yang dianggap oleh banyak kritikus dan penulis sebagai karya terbaik dalam bahasa Inggris dan banyak berpengaruh pada horor modern.[2][3]

Referensi

  1. ^ Barker, Nicolas (1970). "After M. R. James". The Book Collector. 19 (1): 7–20. 
  2. ^ Morton-Haworth, James (director) (December 18, 2005). The Story of the Ghost Story (Television production). BBC. Berlangsung pada 19.50. The strength of M. R. James' writing has come to be the benchmark by which all modern ghost stories are judged 
  3. ^ Scovell, Adam (2020-12-15). "The Restless Ghost Stories of M. R. James". Literary Hub. Diakses tanggal 2024-04-29. His first collection, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, was published to great acclaim by Edward Arnold in 1904, followed by several equally celebrated volumes establishing him as the foremost writer of the genre, still arguably unsurpassed. 

Bacaan tambahan

  • 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. (1939). A Memoir of Montague Rhodes James ... with a list of his writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
  • Murphy, Patrick J. (2017). Medieval Studies and the Ghost Stories of M. R. James. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 9780271077710. 
  • Pfaff, Richard William (1980). Montague Rhodes JamesPerlu mendaftar (gratis). London: Scolar Press. 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, Ghosts and Scholars 6 (1984):20–30

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