Titlebook: American Horror Fiction; From Brockden Brown Brian Docherty Book 1990 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990

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,Robert Bloch’s Psycho: Some Pathological Contexts, in its manifestation in Hitchcock’s film. Here I want to say a little about Robert Bloch’s original story, published in 1959, and to put some specific questions about it. It needs to be noted at the outset that this is an odd and difficult task, because of a peculiarity in the story itself: which i

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,A Feminist Approach to Patricia Highsmith’s Fiction,ifficulty of ascertaining precisely to what genre her novels belong. To see her as a ‘crime writer’ would be inaccurate as well as limitative, since it would mean ignoring certain elements of her stories which are outside the usual crime-detection-arrest pattern. To call her a mystery writer may be

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Stephen King: Powers of Horror,ersonality offered by psychoanalytic theory, specifically by Freud, Lacan and Julia Kristeva. King’s fiction is concerned above all with origins, with the grounds of being. His work betrays a fascination with those primary/primal movements and experiences which impel or force the construction of the

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20579-0feminism; fiction; novel; William Faulkner

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978-0-333-46129-7Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990

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Das Färben der Baumwolle, Wolle und Seides and readers. The name of Edgar Allan Poe, of course, is pre-eminent in both, although he was not the first American writer of horror. That distinction should probably go to the Puritan divine Michael Wigglesworth, whose long poem . (1662) achieved great popularity in Massachusetts as a warning to

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-34618-1etters, at first glance a truly discrepant name to be found in so august an assembly. But, if duly assigned a place at the periphery, ‘an obscure and shadowy niche’, Brown does have at least one legitimate cause for being named in this roll-call of the great and the good. Like Homer, Dante and Shake

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-34618-1 some important qualities which set it apart and make it uniquely the art of Edgar Allan Poe. By all means let us regard Poe as one of the most distinguished heirs of the Gothic movement, which clearly began with the work of the Graveyard School in the early eighteenth century, following the redisco