Writing horror and the body : the fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice

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Writing horror and the body : the fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice

Linda Badley

(Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 51)

Greenwood Press, 1996

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Includes bibliographical references (p.[151]-166) and index

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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.

Table of Contents

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

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