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The Gothic and the carnivalesque in American culture / Timothy Jones.

Author/creator Jones, Timothy, 1975- author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2015.
Description256 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Gothic literary studies
Gothic literary studies. ^A1011088
Contents Introduction : Ballyhoo -- Theory, practice and Gothic carnival -- 'The delight of its horror' : Edgar Allan Poe's carnivals and the nineteenth-century American Gothic -- Weird tales and pulp subjunctivity -- Ray Bradbury and the October aura -- 'Hello, again, you little monsters!' : hosted horrors of the 1950s and 1960s -- Stephen King, affect and the real limits of Gothic practice -- Every day is Halloween : goth and the Gothic -- Conclusion : waiting for the great pumpkin.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN9781783161928
ISBN1783161922
ISBN(ebook)
Standard identifier# 9781783161928

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Joyner General Stacks PS374 .G68 J66 2015 ✔ Available Place Hold