| Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice |  | Author: Linda Badley
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Category: EBooks
List Price: $115.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 112046
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Pages: 200
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0873809054
ASIN: B001EYTBAQ
Publication Date: June 30, 1996
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Product Description
In this sequel to Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic, Badley examines horror fiction as a fantastic genre in which images of the body and the self are articulated and modified. Badley places horror fiction in its cultural context, drawing important connections to theories of gender and sexuality. As our culture places increasing importance on body image, horror fiction has provided a language for imagining the self in new ways--often as ungendered, transformed, or re-generated. Focusing on the works of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice, Badley approaches horror as a discourse that articulates the anxieties of our culture.
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Not for the casual fan October 3, 2002
Steven E. Wedel (Oklahoma)
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
While Badley raises a few interesting points, she takes the literature far too seriously and will lose many readers because of her writing style, which is too heavy with academia. She also seems to have a feminist axe to grind, as she spends a great deal of space writing about feminist elements in the authors' work.I would recommend looking for this at the library if you feel you must read it. There's not enough here to merit the cover price.
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