Availability: In Stock

Books of the Dead Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature

SKU: 9781496819093

Original price was: $30.00.Current price is: $9.00.

Access Books of the Dead Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature Now. Discount up to 90%

Additional information

Full Title

Books of the Dead Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature

Author(s)

Tim Lanzendörfer

Edition
ISBN

9781496819093, 9781496819062, 9781496821140

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The zombie has cropped up in many forms—in film, in television, and as a cultural phenomenon in zombie walks and zombie awareness months—but few books have looked at what the zombie means in fiction.

Tim Lanzendörfer fills this gap by looking at a number of zombie novels, short stories, and comics, and probing what the zombie represents in contemporary literature. Lanzendörfer brings together the most recent critical discussion of zombies and applies it to a selection of key texts including Max Brooks’s World War Z, Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, Junot Díaz’s short story “Monstro,” Robert Kirkman’s comic series The Walking Dead, and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Within the context of broader literary culture, Lanzendörfer makes the case for reading these texts with care and openness in their own right.

Lanzendörfer contends that what zombies do is less important than what becomes possible when they are around. Indeed, they seem less interesting as metaphors for the various ways the world could end than they do as vehicles for how the world might exist in a different and often better form.

Availability: In Stock

Books of the Dead Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature

SKU: 9781496819079

Original price was: $30.00.Current price is: $9.00.

Access Books of the Dead Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature Now. Discount up to 90%

Additional information

Full Title

Books of the Dead Reading the Zombie in Contemporary Literature

Author(s)

Tim Lanzendörfer

Edition
ISBN

9781496819079, 9781496819062, 9781496821140

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The zombie has cropped up in many forms—in film, in television, and as a cultural phenomenon in zombie walks and zombie awareness months—but few books have looked at what the zombie means in fiction.

Tim Lanzendörfer fills this gap by looking at a number of zombie novels, short stories, and comics, and probing what the zombie represents in contemporary literature. Lanzendörfer brings together the most recent critical discussion of zombies and applies it to a selection of key texts including Max Brooks’s World War Z, Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, Junot Díaz’s short story “Monstro,” Robert Kirkman’s comic series The Walking Dead, and Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Within the context of broader literary culture, Lanzendörfer makes the case for reading these texts with care and openness in their own right.

Lanzendörfer contends that what zombies do is less important than what becomes possible when they are around. Indeed, they seem less interesting as metaphors for the various ways the world could end than they do as vehicles for how the world might exist in a different and often better form.