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| Named Person: | Stephen King; Stephen King |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathleen Margaret Lant; Theresa Thompson |
| ISBN: | 0313302324 9780313302329 |
| OCLC Number: | 37981689 |
| Description: | viii, 203 p. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 67 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Kathleen Margaret Lant and Theresa Thompson. |
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