M. R. James
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]
M. R. James | |
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Lahir | Montague Rhodes James 1 Agustus 1862 Goodnestone, Kent, Inggris |
Meninggal | 12 Juni 1936 Eton, Buckinghamshire, Inggris | (umur 73)
Nama pena | M. R. James |
Pekerjaan | Penulis, cendekiawan |
Kebangsaan | Inggris |
Almamater | King's College, Cambridge |
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Referensi
sunting- ^ Barker, Nicolas (1970). "After M. R. James". The Book Collector. 19 (1): 7–20.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
sunting- 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 James . 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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- Koleksi digital
- Karya buatan M. R. James dalam bentuk eBook di Standard Ebooks
- Karya M. R. James di Project Gutenberg
- Karya M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James di Faded Page (Canada)
- Karya M. R. James di LibriVox (buku suara domain umum)
- A complete chronological bibliography of all of his writings hosted by the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences
- Shadows at the Door: The Podcast, a series of full-cast adaptations of James' stories
- Analisis dan pembelajaran
- Ghosts & Scholars – online magazine devoted to James and related literature and writers
- Chronological listing of M. R. James's ghost stories – compiled by Rosemary Pardoe, 2007
- A Thin Ghost – collections include comprehensive film & TV listing, bibliography of fictional works and James-related illustrations
- BBC Suffolk feature about M. R. James – concerning the author's links with Great Livermere and Suffolk
- "Fright Nights: The Horror of M. R. James" – article by Anthony Lane in The New Yorker
- Great Thinkers: Uta Frith FBA on M. R. James FBA podcast, The British Academy
- Templat:ISFDB name
- M. R. James di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)