The Resource Walking Shadows : Reflections on the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern Era
Walking Shadows : Reflections on the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern Era
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The item Walking Shadows : Reflections on the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern Era represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- Walking Shadows focuses on the American fantastic and the American grotesque, attempting in this manner for the first time to establish an overview of and a theoretical approach to two literary modes that have often been regarded as essential to an understanding of the American cultural canon
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (512)
- Contents
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- Walking Shadows: Reflections on the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern Era
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- In the Realm of Theory
- Introduction: Theorizing the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque
- Chapter 1: Todorov, Bakhtin, and Other Theorists
- Nineteenth-century Phantasmagorias
- Chapter 2: Rip Van Winkle's Fall into History: Framing Washington Irving's Tale
- Chapter 3: Wrestling with God in the Devil's Territories: Hawthorne and the Fantastic
- Chapter 4: The Crowing of the Cock: Melville's Fantastic Turn in "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!"
- Chapter 5: Convoluted Spaces: The Carnivalesque-Grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe's "King Pest"
- Chapter 6: The Apocalyptic-Grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
- Chapter 7: In the Empire of Signs: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" and the Pure Fantastic
- Spectral America(s)
- Chapter 8: Spectres of America: Ghostliness in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw
- Chapter 9: Commemorating the Black and Angry Dead in Toni Morrison's Beloved
- From Modernism to Postmodernism
- Chapter 10: Modernism and Its Discontents: H.P. Lovecraft's Poetics of Horror
- Chapter 11: On the Byways of Modernism: Nathanael West and Patricia Highsmith
- Chapter 12: Inside the American Nightmare: Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho and Its Cultural Context
- Chapter 13: Bret Easton Ellis as an Example of Postmodernist Fiction, the Film Medium and Its Side-Effects
- Chapter 14: The Incredible Lightness of Being
- Epilogue
- Chapter 15: Epilogue: Conclusions
- Appendix on Shadows
- Bibliography
- Index
- Isbn
- 9789004303713
- Label
- Walking Shadows : Reflections on the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern Era
- Title
- Walking Shadows
- Title remainder
- Reflections on the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern Era
- Subject
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- COMPUTERS -- Digital Media | Photography
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Fantasy fiction, American
- Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American -- History and criticism
- Grotesque in literature
- Grotesque in literature
- PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Walking Shadows focuses on the American fantastic and the American grotesque, attempting in this manner for the first time to establish an overview of and a theoretical approach to two literary modes that have often been regarded as essential to an understanding of the American cultural canon
- Cataloging source
- IDEBK
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- Johansen, Ib
- Dewey number
- 770.9
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- TR653
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Costerus New Series
- Series volume
- 211
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fantasy fiction, American
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
- Grotesque in literature
- COMPUTERS
- PHOTOGRAPHY
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
- Fantasy fiction, American
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
- Grotesque in literature
- Label
- Walking Shadows : Reflections on the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern Era
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- text
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- txt
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- Contents
- Walking Shadows: Reflections on the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern Era -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- In the Realm of Theory -- Introduction: Theorizing the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque -- Chapter 1: Todorov, Bakhtin, and Other Theorists -- Nineteenth-century Phantasmagorias -- Chapter 2: Rip Van Winkle's Fall into History: Framing Washington Irving's Tale -- Chapter 3: Wrestling with God in the Devil's Territories: Hawthorne and the Fantastic -- Chapter 4: The Crowing of the Cock: Melville's Fantastic Turn in "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!" -- Chapter 5: Convoluted Spaces: The Carnivalesque-Grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe's "King Pest" -- Chapter 6: The Apocalyptic-Grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" -- Chapter 7: In the Empire of Signs: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" and the Pure Fantastic -- Spectral America(s) -- Chapter 8: Spectres of America: Ghostliness in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw -- Chapter 9: Commemorating the Black and Angry Dead in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- From Modernism to Postmodernism -- Chapter 10: Modernism and Its Discontents: H.P. Lovecraft's Poetics of Horror -- Chapter 11: On the Byways of Modernism: Nathanael West and Patricia Highsmith -- Chapter 12: Inside the American Nightmare: Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho and Its Cultural Context -- Chapter 13: Bret Easton Ellis as an Example of Postmodernist Fiction, the Film Medium and Its Side-Effects -- Chapter 14: The Incredible Lightness of Being -- Epilogue -- Chapter 15: Epilogue: Conclusions -- Appendix on Shadows -- Bibliography -- Index
- Control code
- 919875619
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (512)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9789004303713
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 826381
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)919875619
- Label
- Walking Shadows : Reflections on the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern Era
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Walking Shadows: Reflections on the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern Era -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- In the Realm of Theory -- Introduction: Theorizing the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque -- Chapter 1: Todorov, Bakhtin, and Other Theorists -- Nineteenth-century Phantasmagorias -- Chapter 2: Rip Van Winkle's Fall into History: Framing Washington Irving's Tale -- Chapter 3: Wrestling with God in the Devil's Territories: Hawthorne and the Fantastic -- Chapter 4: The Crowing of the Cock: Melville's Fantastic Turn in "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!" -- Chapter 5: Convoluted Spaces: The Carnivalesque-Grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe's "King Pest" -- Chapter 6: The Apocalyptic-Grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" -- Chapter 7: In the Empire of Signs: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" and the Pure Fantastic -- Spectral America(s) -- Chapter 8: Spectres of America: Ghostliness in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw -- Chapter 9: Commemorating the Black and Angry Dead in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- From Modernism to Postmodernism -- Chapter 10: Modernism and Its Discontents: H.P. Lovecraft's Poetics of Horror -- Chapter 11: On the Byways of Modernism: Nathanael West and Patricia Highsmith -- Chapter 12: Inside the American Nightmare: Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho and Its Cultural Context -- Chapter 13: Bret Easton Ellis as an Example of Postmodernist Fiction, the Film Medium and Its Side-Effects -- Chapter 14: The Incredible Lightness of Being -- Epilogue -- Chapter 15: Epilogue: Conclusions -- Appendix on Shadows -- Bibliography -- Index
- Control code
- 919875619
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (512)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9789004303713
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 826381
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)919875619
Subject
- COMPUTERS -- Digital Media | Photography
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Fantasy fiction, American
- Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American -- History and criticism
- Grotesque in literature
- Grotesque in literature
- PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems
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