Acknowledgments Introduction Flesh Made Word The Sin Eater: Orality, Postliteracy, and the Early Stephen King Stephen King Viewing the Body Clive Barker Writing from the Body Transfigured Vampires: Anne Rice Afterword Notes Bibliography Filmography Index
...examines horror fiction as a genre of the fantastic in which images of the body and self are articulated and modified.
LINDA BADLEY is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University./e She has published articles on fiction, film, poetry, and gender. She is author of Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic (Greenwood, 1995).
"In this five-chapter study of some manners of "the embodied self"
that are emblematic of contemporary anxieties, Badley emphasizes
the shifting boundaries of the post-Freudian body and its
"archetypal projections..,." Badley neatly and effectively
integrates her primary and wide-ranging secondary sources; her
fine, clear, and admirably set out analyses go beyond genre. [T]his
volume is easily recommended for general, contemporary, and
specialist collections."-Choice
?In this five-chapter study of some manners of "the embodied self"
that are emblematic of contemporary anxieties, Badley emphasizes
the shifting boundaries of the post-Freudian body and its
"archetypal projections..,." Badley neatly and effectively
integrates her primary and wide-ranging secondary sources; her
fine, clear, and admirably set out analyses go beyond genre. [T]his
volume is easily recommended for general, contemporary, and
specialist collections.?-Choice
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