| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 378 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-360) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Weaving and unweaving the story / Sharon R. Yang -- Part I: Mythologies -- Last temptation of Mulder: reading The X-files through the Christological lens of Nikos Kazantzakis / Amy M. Donaldson -- "Whosoever believeth": rereading the Bible through The X-files / Karen Wolf -- Grail of truth: The X-files as a modern day Arthurian quest / Joan R. Vredenburgh -- "Vanishing Americans": James Fenimore Cooper's detectives and the trauma of alien invasion in The X-files / Brian Hauser -- Folklore Files: In(corp)orating legends in The X-files / Mikel J. Koven -- Part II: Gothic redux -- Truth is back there: The X-files and early science fiction / Jason P. Vest -- X-files: continuing the psychic detective legacy / Sage Leslie-McCarthy -- X-files and the science fiction gothic / Robert L. Lively -- Part III: Narrative innovation -- "Post-modern Prometheus", postmodern voices: The X-files and subjective storytelling / Cary Jones -- Influence of Poe's mad narrator on The X-files narrative and mythology / Tamy Burnett -- Believing the lie: interpretive strategies and epistemic choices in The X-files / Margaret Kaner -- Trying to tell "the truth": metafiction and historiographic metafiction in The X-files / Sherry R. Truffin -- X-files meets Vineland / Thomas Argiro -- Tennyson's "Tithonus" and the exhaustion of survival in The X-files / Matthew VanWinkle -- Ending is out there / Suzanne Speidel. |
| Summary |
The X-Files and Literature: Unweaving the Story, Unraveling the Lie to find the Truth provides an innovative and valuable exploration of the groundbreaking television program. Although much academic work has been devoted to the social, psychological, and. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
X-files (Television program)
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X-files (Television program) |
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X-files (Television program) |
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Television and literature.
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Television and literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Yang, Sharon R.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: X-files and literature. Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2007 9781847182395 (DLC) 2008360655 (OCoLC)169582888 |
| ISBN |
9781443815468 (electronic book) |
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1443815462 (electronic book) |
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9781847182395 |
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1847182399 |
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