The Gothic Worlds of Peter Straub
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2016
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6492-7 (ISBN)
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6492-7 (ISBN)
Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. Drawing on interviews with Straub and featuring an exclusive interview with Stephen King, this study explores the work of the author who has been called “a writer of rare wit and intelligence in a field beset with cynical potboilers.”
Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. For him, the Gothic style is to be created and recreated in a changing world-Faustian pacts, buried secrets, haunted places, ghosts, vampires and succubi take on strange new shapes and effects. Stephen King describes his style as ""a synthesis of horror and beauty."" Drawing on interviews with Straub and featuring an exclusive interview with King, this study explores the work of the author who has been called ""a writer of rare wit and intelligence in a field beset with cynical potboilers.
Horror novelist Peter Straub creates highly personalized fiction with an allusiveness and ambiguity that deny the genre's explicit nature. For him, the Gothic style is to be created and recreated in a changing world-Faustian pacts, buried secrets, haunted places, ghosts, vampires and succubi take on strange new shapes and effects. Stephen King describes his style as ""a synthesis of horror and beauty."" Drawing on interviews with Straub and featuring an exclusive interview with King, this study explores the work of the author who has been called ""a writer of rare wit and intelligence in a field beset with cynical potboilers.
John C. Tibbetts is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of Kansas, USA.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: Locating Peter Straub (by Gary K. Wolfe)
Introduction: “The Juniper Tree”
One. “The Magic Taxi”: The Short Stories
Two. “A Dark Necessity”: Straub’s American Gothic
Three. “King of the Cats”: The Fairy Tales
Four. “Protean Impostures”: Straub and the Doppelgänger
Five. “Datchery’s Children”: Stories of Crime and Detection
Six. “The Third Voice”: Straub and Stephen King
Seven. “Invisible Ink”: On Writers and Writing
Appendix: “A Magellan of the Interior”: An Interview with Straub
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.09.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 19 photographs |
Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 367 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4766-6492-7 / 1476664927 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-6492-7 / 9781476664927 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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