Anne Rice's fame rests on her supernatural tales, but she is far
more than a horror novelist. She goes beyond the genre by changing
the classic horror stories into myths, fairy tales, and nightmares
in order to explore philosophical questions of life, death, evil,
and the meaning of existence. This is the most up-to-date analysis
of her work and includes individual chapters on each of her
vampire, witch, and mummy novels, including her most recent,
Memnoch the Devil (1995). A perfect companion for students and Anne
Rice fans, this study also features a biographical chapter and a
chapter which discusses her use of the supernatural, horror, and
fantasy genres. Smith shows how Rice's five vampire novels
interweave to form a complete mythology, a layered universe with
its own history and rules, in which her characters act out the
question of what it means to be human in an increasingly inhuman
world. In the three Witches Chronicles, Smith shows how Rice
explores the meaning of power, sexuality, family, and womanhood in
the 20th century. Each novel is examined in a separate chapter with
subsections on point of view, plot, character, theme, and literary
device. Each novel is also examined from an alternative critical
approach, such as psychological, myth, and feminist criticism,
which offers the reader an alternative perspective from which to
read the novel. A complete bibliography of Rice's work, general
criticism and biographical sources, and listings of reviews of each
novel complete the work. For fans and students, this is the perfect
companion to Anne Rice's fiction and is a necessary purchase by
secondary school and public libraries.
General
| Imprint: |
Greenwood Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers |
| Release date: |
September 1996 |
| First published: |
September 1996 |
| Authors: |
Jennifer Smith
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
208 |
| Edition: |
New |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-313-29612-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-313-29612-X |
| Barcode: |
9780313296123 |
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