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American nightmares [[electronic resource] ] : the haunted house formula in American popular fiction / / Dale Bailey
| 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
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| Bowling Green, Ohio, : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American nightmares [[electronic resource] ] : the haunted house formula in American popular fiction / / Dale Bailey
| 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 |
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Bailey Dale
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| Bowling Green, Ohio, : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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American nightmares : the haunted house formula in American popular fiction / / Dale Bailey
| American nightmares : 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 |
9780299268732
029926873X 9781283976183 1283976188 |
| 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-9910959397303321 |
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Bailey Dale
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| Bowling Green, Ohio, : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1999 | ||
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| 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
| 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 |
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Bryant Jerry H. <1928->
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| Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003 | ||
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| 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
| 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 |
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Bryant Jerry H. <1928->
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| Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2003 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Deadly musings [[electronic resource] ] : violence and verbal form in American fiction / / Michael Kowalewski
| 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 |
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Kowalewski Michael
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| Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1993 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Deadly musings [[electronic resource] ] : violence and verbal form in American fiction / / Michael Kowalewski
| 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 |
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Kowalewski Michael
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| Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1993 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Dwelling in the text : houses in American fiction / / Marilyn R. Chandler
| 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 |
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McEntyre Marilyn Chandler <1949->
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| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1991] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / / Sonja Schillings
| Enemies of All Humankind : Fictions of Legitimate Violence / / Sonja Schillings |
| Autore | Schillings Sonja |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hanover, N.H. : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) |
| Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
| Collana | Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Civilization - Philosophy - History
Violence - Philosophy Pirates in literature English literature - History and criticism Violence in literature American fiction - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Enemies of civilization
Enemy of mankind |
| ISBN |
9781512600179
9781512600155 9781512600162 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The emperor and the pirate: legitimate violence as a modern dilemma. Augustine of Hippo: The city of God; Charles Johnson: A general history of the pyrates; Charles Ellms: The pirates' own book -- Race, space, and the formation of the hostis humani generis constellation. Piratae and praedones: the racialization of hostis humani generis; John Locke, William Blackstone, and the invader in the state of nature; Hostis humani generis and the American historical novel: James Fenimore Cooper's The deerslayer -- The American civilization thesis: internalizing the other. The frontier thesis as a third model of civilization; The democratic frontiersman and the totalitarian leviathan; Free agency and the pure woman paradox; The foundational pirata in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It is underneath us": the planetary zone in between as an American dilemma; The institutional frontier: a new type of criminal; Who is innocent? the later Cold War years; Moshin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist and the War on Terror -- Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910166648303321 |
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Schillings Sonja
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| Hanover, N.H. : , : Dartmouth College Press, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Producing American races : Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison / / Patricia McKee
| Producing American races : Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison / / Patricia McKee |
| Autore | McKee Patricia <1945-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, NC : , : Duke University Press, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813.009/355 |
| Collana | New Americanists |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism
Race in literature Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century White people - Race identity - United States African Americans - Race identity African Americans in literature White people in literature |
| ISBN |
0-8223-2363-X
0-8223-9766-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: race and media -- Reproducing whiteness: The wings of the dove -- Collective whiteness in The golden bowl -- Self-division as racial divide: The sound and the fury -- Playing white men in Light in August -- Black spaces in Sula -- Off the record: Jazz and the production of Black culture. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786898003321 |
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McKee Patricia <1945->
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| Durham, NC : , : Duke University Press, , 1999 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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