Description |
viii, 203 pages ; 25 cm. |
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Women language |
Series |
Contributions to the study of popular culture,
0198-9871 ;
no. 67
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Contributions to the study of popular culture ; no. 67.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index. |
Contents |
Imagining the worst: Stephen King and the representation of women / Kathleen Margaret Lant and Theresa Thompson -- Cotton Mather and Stephen King: writing/righting the body politic / Edward J. Ingebretsen -- Patriarchal mediations of Carrie: the book, the movie, and the musical / Douglas Keesey -- Rituals of male violence: unlocking the (fe)male self in Gerald's game and Dolores Claiborne / Theresa Thompson -- Repulsive attractions: "The raft," the Vagina Dentata, and the slasher formula / Leonard Cassuto -- The power of the feminine and the gendered construction of horror in Stephen King's "The reach" / André L. DeCuir -- Gerald's Game and Dolores Claiborne: Stephen King and the evolution of an authentic female narrative voice / Carol A. Senf -- "Oh dear Jesus it is female": monster as mother/mother as monster in Stephen King's It / Linda Anderson -- It, a sexual fantasy / Karen Thoens -- Cars are girls: sexual power and sexual panic in Stephen King's Christine / Edward Madden -- The rape of constant reader: Stephen King's construction of the female reader and violation of the female body in Misery / Kathleen Margaret Lant. |
Subject |
King, Stephen, 1947- -- Characters -- Women.
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King, Stephen, 1947- |
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Horror tales, American -- History and criticism.
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Horror tales, American. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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King, Stephen, 1947- -- Personnages -- Femmes. |
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Récits d'horreur américains -- Histoire et critique. |
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Femmes dans la littérature. |
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Horror tales, American.
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Added Author |
Lant, Kathleen Margaret.
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Thompson, Theresa.
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ISBN |
0313302324 alkaline paper |
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