American nightmares [[electronic resource] ] : the haunted house formula in American popular fiction / / Dale Bailey |
Autore | Bailey Dale |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bowling Green, Ohio, : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (157 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
Haunted houses in literature Popular literature - United States - History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature Ghost stories, American - History and criticism Horror tales, American - History and criticism Nightmares in literature Home in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-299-26873-X
1-283-97618-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452784003321 |
Bailey Dale | ||
Bowling Green, Ohio, : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American nightmares [[electronic resource] ] : the haunted house formula in American popular fiction / / Dale Bailey |
Autore | Bailey Dale |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bowling Green, Ohio, : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (157 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
Haunted houses in literature Popular literature - United States - History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature Ghost stories, American - History and criticism Horror tales, American - History and criticism Nightmares in literature Home in literature |
ISBN |
0-299-26873-X
1-283-97618-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779470303321 |
Bailey Dale | ||
Bowling Green, Ohio, : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American nightmares [[electronic resource] ] : the haunted house formula in American popular fiction / / Dale Bailey |
Autore | Bailey Dale |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bowling Green, Ohio, : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (157 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
Haunted houses in literature Popular literature - United States - History and criticism National characteristics, American, in literature Ghost stories, American - History and criticism Horror tales, American - History and criticism Nightmares in literature Home in literature |
ISBN |
0-299-26873-X
1-283-97618-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Welcome to the Funhouse: Gothic and the Architecture of Subversion -- 2. The Sentient House and the Ghostly Tradition: The Legacy of Poe and Hawthorne -- 3. June Cleaver in the House of Horrors: Shirley Jackson's 'The Haunting of Hill House' -- 4. "Too bad we can't stay, baby!": The Horror at Amityville -- 5. Middle-Class Nightmares: Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings and Anne Rivers Siddons's 'The House Next Door' -- 6. Unmanned by the American Dream: Stephen King's 'The Shining' -- 7. Ghosts in the Machine: The Future of the Haunted House Formula -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818141003321 |
Bailey Dale | ||
Bowling Green, Ohio, : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Born in a mighty bad land [[electronic resource] ] : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / / Jerry H. Bryant |
Autore | Bryant Jerry H. <1928-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
Collana | Blacks in the diaspora |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism
Violence in literature Literature and folklore - United States African American men in literature African Americans Violence Men in literature Men |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-07213-7
0-253-10122-0 0-253-10989-2 9786612072130 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The classic badman and the ballad -- Postbellum violence and its causes : "displaced rage" in a preindustrial culture -- Between the wars : the genteel novel, counterstereotypes, and initial probes -- From the genteel to the primitive : the twenties and thirties -- The ghetto bildungsroman : from the forties to the seventies -- Toasts : tales of the "bad nigger" -- Chester Himes : Harlem absurd -- A "toast" novel : pimps, hoodlums, and hit men -- Walter Mosley and the violent men of Watts -- Rap : going commercial -- The badman and the storyteller : John Edgar Wideman's homewood trilogy -- Toni Morrison : Ulysses, badmen, and archetypes--abandoning violence -- Appendix : Analysis of thirty prototype ballads. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457531703321 |
Bryant Jerry H. <1928-> | ||
Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Born in a mighty bad land [[electronic resource] ] : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / / Jerry H. Bryant |
Autore | Bryant Jerry H. <1928-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
Collana | Blacks in the diaspora |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism
Violence in literature Literature and folklore - United States African American men in literature African Americans Violence Men in literature Men |
ISBN |
1-282-07213-7
0-253-10122-0 0-253-10989-2 9786612072130 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The classic badman and the ballad -- Postbellum violence and its causes : "displaced rage" in a preindustrial culture -- Between the wars : the genteel novel, counterstereotypes, and initial probes -- From the genteel to the primitive : the twenties and thirties -- The ghetto bildungsroman : from the forties to the seventies -- Toasts : tales of the "bad nigger" -- Chester Himes : Harlem absurd -- A "toast" novel : pimps, hoodlums, and hit men -- Walter Mosley and the violent men of Watts -- Rap : going commercial -- The badman and the storyteller : John Edgar Wideman's homewood trilogy -- Toni Morrison : Ulysses, badmen, and archetypes--abandoning violence -- Appendix : Analysis of thirty prototype ballads. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784577503321 |
Bryant Jerry H. <1928-> | ||
Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Born in a mighty bad land [[electronic resource] ] : the violent man in African American folklore and fiction / / Jerry H. Bryant |
Autore | Bryant Jerry H. <1928-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
Collana | Blacks in the diaspora |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism
Violence in literature Literature and folklore - United States African American men in literature African Americans Violence Men in literature Men |
ISBN |
1-282-07213-7
0-253-10122-0 0-253-10989-2 9786612072130 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The classic badman and the ballad -- Postbellum violence and its causes : "displaced rage" in a preindustrial culture -- Between the wars : the genteel novel, counterstereotypes, and initial probes -- From the genteel to the primitive : the twenties and thirties -- The ghetto bildungsroman : from the forties to the seventies -- Toasts : tales of the "bad nigger" -- Chester Himes : Harlem absurd -- A "toast" novel : pimps, hoodlums, and hit men -- Walter Mosley and the violent men of Watts -- Rap : going commercial -- The badman and the storyteller : John Edgar Wideman's homewood trilogy -- Toni Morrison : Ulysses, badmen, and archetypes--abandoning violence -- Appendix : Analysis of thirty prototype ballads. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817268103321 |
Bryant Jerry H. <1928-> | ||
Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Deadly musings [[electronic resource] ] : violence and verbal form in American fiction / / Michael Kowalewski |
Autore | Kowalewski Michael |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
Violence in literature Style, Literary Literary form |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-75187-5
9786612751875 1-4008-2117-7 1-4008-1241-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Reading Violence, Making Sense -- CHAPTER I. Invisible Ink -- CHAPTER II. James Fenimore Cooper -- CHAPTER III. Poe's Violence -- CHAPTER IV. Violence and Style in Stephen Crane's Fiction -- CHAPTER V. The Purity of Execution in Hemingway's Fiction -- CHAPTER VI. Faulkner -- CHAPTER VII. Flannery O'Connor -- CHAPTER VIII. "The Late, Late, Late Show" -- POSTSCRIPT: Style, Violence, American Fiction -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455491703321 |
Kowalewski Michael | ||
Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Deadly musings [[electronic resource] ] : violence and verbal form in American fiction / / Michael Kowalewski |
Autore | Kowalewski Michael |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
Violence in literature Style, Literary Literary form |
ISBN |
1-282-75187-5
9786612751875 1-4008-2117-7 1-4008-1241-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Reading Violence, Making Sense -- CHAPTER I. Invisible Ink -- CHAPTER II. James Fenimore Cooper -- CHAPTER III. Poe's Violence -- CHAPTER IV. Violence and Style in Stephen Crane's Fiction -- CHAPTER V. The Purity of Execution in Hemingway's Fiction -- CHAPTER VI. Faulkner -- CHAPTER VII. Flannery O'Connor -- CHAPTER VIII. "The Late, Late, Late Show" -- POSTSCRIPT: Style, Violence, American Fiction -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779903303321 |
Kowalewski Michael | ||
Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Deadly musings [[electronic resource] ] : violence and verbal form in American fiction / / Michael Kowalewski |
Autore | Kowalewski Michael |
Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
Violence in literature Style, Literary Literary form |
ISBN |
1-282-75187-5
9786612751875 1-4008-2117-7 1-4008-1241-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Reading Violence, Making Sense -- CHAPTER I. Invisible Ink -- CHAPTER II. James Fenimore Cooper -- CHAPTER III. Poe's Violence -- CHAPTER IV. Violence and Style in Stephen Crane's Fiction -- CHAPTER V. The Purity of Execution in Hemingway's Fiction -- CHAPTER VI. Faulkner -- CHAPTER VII. Flannery O'Connor -- CHAPTER VIII. "The Late, Late, Late Show" -- POSTSCRIPT: Style, Violence, American Fiction -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821398103321 |
Kowalewski Michael | ||
Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1993 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dwelling in the text : houses in American fiction / / Marilyn R. Chandler |
Autore | McEntyre Marilyn Chandler <1949-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1991] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 338 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
Setting (Literature) Dwellings in literature Domestic fiction, American - History and criticism Home in literature English Languages & Literatures American Literature |
ISBN | 0-585-27414-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Walden : a manifesto in wood and stone -- "The Fall of the House of Usher" : and who can tell the teller from the tale? -- The house of the seven gables : secrets of the heart -- The portrait of a lady : more stately mansions -- The awakening and "The Yellow Wallpaper" : ironies of independence -- The age of innocence : tribal rites in the urban village -- The professor's house : escape to the interior -- The great Gatsby : awakening from the American dream -- Absalom, absalom! : a house divided -- Postwar suburban fiction : American dream as nightmare -- Housekeeping and Beloved : when women come home. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495873703321 |
McEntyre Marilyn Chandler <1949-> | ||
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1991] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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