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Encountering Pennywise : Critical Perspectives on Stephen King's IT /
"First published in 1986, Stephen King's novel IT forever changed the legacy of the literary clown. The subject of a TV miniseries and a two-part film adaptation and the inspiration for a resurgence of the evil clown figure in popular culture, IT's influence is undeniable, yet scholar...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson, Mississippi :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction : Counterpunch : IT as modern Punch and Judy show / Whitney S. May
- Section I: Countercurrents. 1. Remembering half-forgotten memories of Derry : The moral panics of the 1980s / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
- 2. Generation gap? Time, character, and narrative shifts between Stephen King's IT (1986) and its recent adaptations (2017/2019) / Erin Giannini
- 3. Floating fears : Understanding childhood traumascapes in Stephen King's IT / Diganta Roy
- Section II: Countercultures. 4. "A sudden upheaval of beauty or terror" : Body horror and abjection in Stephen King's IT / Margaret Yankovich
- 5. Patrick Hockstetter : Natural madness in Stephen King's IT / Amylou Ahava
- 6. Not falling apart in the face of horror : Abjection and base matter in Stephen King's IT / Keith Currie
- Section III: Counterclaims. 7. The townspeople of Derry in Stephen King's IT : Bystanders and responsibility for evil / Penny Crofts
- 8. Memory as monster : Remembering and forgetting in Stephen King's IT / Jeff Ambrose
- 9. Toxic nostalgia in Stephen King's IT / Daniel P. Compora
- Section IV: Counterfeits. 10. Goodbye Pogo : Pennywise and the serial murder of the American dream / Hannah Lina Schneeberger and Maria Wiegel
- 11. Send in the clowns : Pennywise and the monstrousness of colonialism / Shannon S. Shaw.