Encountering Pennywise (Paperback)

Language: English

Published by University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2022

1496842235 / 9781496842237

Series: Book 3 of 10 - Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series

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Paperback. Contributions by Amylou Ahava, Jeff Ambrose, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Daniel P. Compora, Penny Crofts, Keith Currie, Erin Giannini, Diganta Roy, Hannah Lina Schneeberger, Shannon S. Shaw, Maria Wiegel, and Margaret J. Yankovich First published in 1986, Stephen Kings novel IT forever changed the legacy of the literary clown. The subject of a TV miniseries and a two-part film adaptation and the inspiration for a resurgence of the evil clown figure in popular culture, IT's influence is undeniable, yet scholarship to date is almost exclusively devoted to the adaptations rather than the novel itself. Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen Kings "IT" considers the pronounced cultural fluctuations of IT's legacies by centering the novel within the theoretical frameworks that animate it and ensure its literary and cultural persistence. The collection explores the ways the novel, so like its antagonist, replicates (or disavows) the icons of various canons and categories in order to accomplish specific psychological and cultural work. Gathering the work of scholars from diverse professional and disciplinary vantage points, editor Whitney S. May has curated an anthology that spans discussions of American surveillance culture, intergenerational conflict, the legacies of settler colonialism and Native American representation, serial-killer fanaticism, and more. In this volume, we read the protagonists constellations of countermoves against Pennywise as productive outlines of critique effectuated by the richness of the clowns reflective power. The essays are therefore thematically arranged into a series of four categories of "counter"countercurrents, countercultures, counterclaims, and counterfeitswhere each supplies a specific critical lens through which to view Pennywises disruptions of both culture and cultural critique. Considers the cultural fluctuations of ITs legacies by centering the novel within the theoretical frameworks that animate it and ensure its literary and cultural persistence. The collection explores the ways the novel replicates the icons of various canons and categories in order to accomplish specific psychological and cultural work. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title
Encountering Pennywise (Paperback)
Author
Whitney S. May
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi, Jackson
Publication year
2022
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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1496842235
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9781496842237
Series
Book 3 of 10: Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series

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