Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture)

Book info: Writing Horror and the Body: The Fiction of Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Anne Rice (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) (Hardcover, 200 pages) – Praeger, 1996. Language: English.

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. Editorial Reviews Review "In this five-chapter study of some manners of "the embodied self" that are emblematic of contemporary anxieties, Badley emphasizes the shifting boundaries of the post-Freudian body and its "archetypal projections..,." Badley neatly and effectively integrates her primary and wide-ranging secondary sources; her fine, clear, and admirably set out analyses go beyond genre. [T]his volume is easily recommended for general, contemporary, and specialist collections."-Choice

?In this five-chapter study of some manners of "the embodied self" that are emblematic of contemporary anxieties, Badley emphasizes the shifting boundaries of the post-Freudian body and its "archetypal projections..,." Badley neatly and effectively integrates her primary and wide-ranging secondary sources; her fine, clear, and admirably set out analyses go beyond genre. [T]his volume is easily recommended for general, contemporary, and specialist collections.?-Choice About the Author LINDA BADLEY is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University./e She has published articles on fiction, film, poetry, and gender. She is author of Film, Horror, and the Body Fantastic (Greenwood, 1995).