Horror literature from Gothic to post-modern : critical essays
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- ISBN: 1476674884
- ISBN: 9781476674889
- ISBN: 1476637911
- ISBN: 9781476637914
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 228 pages)
remote - Publisher: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
Formatted Contents Note: | "The mist of death is on me" : Ann Radcliffe's unexplained supernatural in Gaston de Blondeville / Elizabeth Bobbitt -- Jekyll and Hyde everywhere : inconsistency and disparity in the real world / Erica McCrystal -- Scattergories : class upheaval, social chaos and the horrors of category crisis in World war Z / J. Rocky Colavito -- Marjorie Bowen and the third fury / John C. Tibbetts -- "When the cage came up there was something crouched a-top of it" : the haunted tale of L.T.C. Rolt / Danny Rhodes -- Richard Laymon's rhetorical style : minimalism, suspense and negative space / Gavin F. Hurley -- Four quadrants of success : the metalinguistics of author protagonists in the fiction of Stephen King / James Arthur Anderson -- "The symptoms of possession" : gender, power and trauma in late 20th century horror novels / Bridget E. Keown -- "Not a bedtime story" : investigating textual interactions between the horror genre and children's picture books / Emily Anctil -- Synchronic horror and the dreaming : a theory of aboriginal australian horror and monstrosity / Naomi Simone Borwein -- "Gelatinous green immensity" : weird fiction and the grotesque sublime / Johnny Murray -- Night of the living dead, or Endgame : Jan Kott, Samuel Beckett and zombies / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- Koji Suzuki's Ring : a world literary perspective / Frazer Lee -- Mapping digital disease : representations of movement and technology in Jim Sonzero's Pulse and Stephen King's Cell / Rahel Sixta Schmitz -- Afterword: Guardians of the damned : horror scholarship and the library / Becky Spratford. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record |
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