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- catalog abstract "A Dark Night's Dreaming opens by defining the shape of horror fiction today, illuminating the genre's narrative themes, psychological and social contexts, and historical development. The core of the volume focuses on the lives and major works of the six who have dramatically shaped the genre: William Peter Blatty, Thomas Harris, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, and Whitley Strieber. A final chapter analyzes the complex relationship between horror fiction and its adaptation to film. Looking beyond the tormented maidens, madmen, monsters, and other archetypes of the genre, these critics differentiate contemporary Gothic fiction from that of earlier generations while demonstrating that horror remains one of the most important and consistent strains connecting the diverse elements of the American literary tradition. They comment on the genre's enormous popularity and undeniable influence in American society and scrutinize its changing representations of women, monsters, and gore. The volume concludes with an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary works.".
- catalog contributor b8468066.
- catalog contributor b8468067.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "A Dark Night's Dreaming opens by defining the shape of horror fiction today, illuminating the genre's narrative themes, psychological and social contexts, and historical development. The core of the volume focuses on the lives and major works of the six who have dramatically shaped the genre: William Peter Blatty, Thomas Harris, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, and Whitley Strieber. A final chapter analyzes the complex relationship between horror fiction and its adaptation to film.".
- catalog description "After the danse: Horror at the end of the century / Michael A. Morrison -- Transmogrified gothic: The novels of Thomas Harris / Tony Magistrale -- The art of balance: Stephen King's canon / Edwin F. Casebeer -- Living with(out) boundaries: The novels of Anne Rice / Lynda Haas and Robert Hass -- Mirror and labyrinth: The fiction of Peter Straub / Bernadette Lynn Bosky -- Casting out demons: The horror fiction of William Peter Blatty / Douglas F. Winter -- Adam's Dream: The gothic imagination of Whitley Strieber / Mary Pharr -- Culture in the hall of mirrors : film and fiction and fiction and film / Michael J. Collins.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Looking beyond the tormented maidens, madmen, monsters, and other archetypes of the genre, these critics differentiate contemporary Gothic fiction from that of earlier generations while demonstrating that horror remains one of the most important and consistent strains connecting the diverse elements of the American literary tradition. They comment on the genre's enormous popularity and undeniable influence in American society and scrutinize its changing representations of women, monsters, and gore. The volume concludes with an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary works.".
- catalog extent "xi, 141 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1570030707".
- catalog isPartOf "Understanding contemporary American literature".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press,".
- catalog subject "813/.0873809 20".
- catalog subject "Horror tales, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS374.H67 D37 1996".
- catalog tableOfContents "After the danse: Horror at the end of the century / Michael A. Morrison -- Transmogrified gothic: The novels of Thomas Harris / Tony Magistrale -- The art of balance: Stephen King's canon / Edwin F. Casebeer -- Living with(out) boundaries: The novels of Anne Rice / Lynda Haas and Robert Hass -- Mirror and labyrinth: The fiction of Peter Straub / Bernadette Lynn Bosky -- Casting out demons: The horror fiction of William Peter Blatty / Douglas F. Winter -- Adam's Dream: The gothic imagination of Whitley Strieber / Mary Pharr -- Culture in the hall of mirrors : film and fiction and fiction and film / Michael J. Collins.".
- catalog title "A dark night's dreaming : contemporary American horror fiction / edited by Tony Magistrale, Michael A. Morrison.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".