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Teaching Stephen King : horror, the supernatural, and new approaches to literature
\"Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom. The book is organized around three key themes: Variations of Classic Horror Tropes, Real Life Horror, and Playing with Publishing\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Following In Poe’s Wake
Jonathan Elmer’s In Poe’s Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric addresses a wide range of texts from across diverse media, with unifying analysis grounded in the visual and auditory sensations evoked by Poe’s work. [...]Poe is simultaneously stable and fluid, knowable and negotiable. In addition to its thematic meanings, Elmer’s black box also has artistic ramifications, as he argues that there is “something fundamental in Poe’s work, an aesthetic of darkness to which graphic artists are drawn as if to a limit of their own medium’s capacities” [30–31], as they wrestle with the challenge of visually depicting the unrepresentable. The sensory nature of this experience makes “The Fall of the House of Usher” ideal for adaptation across a range of media that rely on sound, with Elmer developing analyses of opera, animation, conceptual art, and a music video to highlight different sensory approaches to reimagining Poe’s story, all of which aim to destabilize the listener in ways that echo Roderick’s experience of being overwhelmed by his family’s house.
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Teaching graphic novels in the English classroom : pedagogical possibilities of multimodal literacy engagement
This collection highlights the diverse ways comics and graphic novels are used in English and literature classrooms, whether to develop critical thinking or writing skills, paired with a more traditional text, or as literature in their own right. From fictional stories to non-fiction works such as biography/memoir, history, or critical textbooks, graphic narratives provide students a new way to look at the course material and the world around them. Graphic novels have been widely and successfully incorporated into composition and creative writing classes, introductory literature surveys, and upper-level literature seminars, and present unique opportunities for engaging students? multiple literacies and critical thinking skills, as well as providing a way to connect to the terminology and theoretical framework of the larger disciplines of rhetoric, writing, and literature.
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Beyond the Sea: Echoes of Jules Verne in \The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou\
Wes Anderson's films often contain intertextual connections to literary predecessors in a relationship that's not quite adaptation but more a series of interconnected allusions. Anderson's Life Aquatic shares several common themes with Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1870), including spectacles of design in the Nautilus and the Belafonte that overtly connect these ships to their captains, their troubled protagonists, and competing versions of masculinity highlighted by interaction with other male characters.
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Supernatural youth
Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Jes Battis, addresses the role of adolescence in fantastic media, adventure stories, cinema, and television aimed at youth. The goal of this volume is to analyze the ways in which young heroic protagonists are presented in such popular literary and visual texts. Supernatural Youth surveys a variety of sources whose young protagonists are placed in heroic positions, whether by magic, technology, prophecy, or other forces beyond their control. Series examined include Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Supernatural Youth, edited by Jes Battis, is essential for educators who work in the fields of English, media studies, women's studies, LGBT studies, and sociology, as well as undergraduate students who are interested in popular culture.
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