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Shirley Jackson and Domesticity

Autor: Jill E. Anderson , Melanie R. Anderson

Número de Páginas: 273

Shirley Jackson and Domesticity takes on American horror writer Shirley Jackson's domestic narratives – those fictionalized in her novels and short stories as well as the ones captured in her memoirs – to explore the extraordinary and often supernatural ways domestic practices and the ecology of the home influence Jackson's storytelling. Examining various areas of homemaking – child-rearing and reproduction, housekeeping, architecture and spatiality, the housewife mythos – through the theoretical frameworks of gothic, queer, gender, supernatural, humor, and architectural studies, this collection contextualizes Jackson's archive in a Cold War framework and assesses the impact of the work of a writer seeking to question the status quo of her time and culture.

Shirley Jackson's American Gothic

Autor: Darryl Hattenhauer

Número de Páginas: 247

Best known for her short story "The Lottery" and her novel The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson produced a body of work that is more varied and complex than critics have realized. In fact, as Darryl Hattenhauer argues here, Jackson was one of the few writers to anticipate the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and therefore ranks among the most significant writers of her time. The first comprehensive study of all of Jackson's fiction, Shirley Jackson's American Gothic offers readers the chance not only to rediscover her work, but also to see how and why a major American writer was passed over for inclusion in the canon of American literature.

Shirley Jackson’s Dark Tales

Autor: Joan Passey , Robert Lloyd

Número de Páginas: 249

The first dedicated exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson for three decades, this volume takes an in-depth look at the themes and legacies of her 200-plus short stories. Recognized as the mother of contemporary horror, scholars from across the globe, and from a range of different disciplinary backgrounds, dig into the lasting impact of her work in light of its increasing relevance to contemporary critical preoccupations and the re-release of Jackson's work in 2016. Offering new methodologies to study her work, this volume calls upon ideas of intertextuality, ecocriticism and psychoanalysis to examine a broad range of themes from national identity, race, gender and class to domesticity, the occult, selfhood and mental illness. With consideration of her blockbuster works alongside later works that received much less critical attention, Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales promises a rich and dynamic expansion on previous scholarship of Jackson's oeuvre, both bringing her writing into the contemporary conversation, and ensuring her place in the canon of Horror fiction.

Shirley Jackson, Influences and Confluences

Autor: Melanie R. Anderson , Lisa Kröger

Número de Páginas: 218

The popularity of such widely known works as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House has tended to obscure the extent of Shirley Jackson's literary output, which includes six novels, a prodigious number of short stories, and two volumes of domestic sketches. Organized around the themes of influence and intertextuality, this collection places Jackson firmly within the literary cohort of the 1950s. The contributors investigate the work that informed her own fiction and discuss how Jackson inspired writers of literature and film. The collection begins with essays that tease out what Jackson's writing owes to the weird tale, detective fiction, the supernatural tradition, and folklore, among other influences. The focus then shifts to Jackson's place in American literature and the impact of her work on women's writing, campus literature, and the graphic novelist Alison Bechdel. The final two essays examine adaptations of The Haunting of Hill House and Jackson's influence on contemporary American horror cinema. Taken together, the essays offer convincing evidence that half a century following her death, readers and writers alike are still finding value in Jackson’s words.

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Autor: Ruth Franklin

Número de Páginas: 368

Winner • National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) Winner • Edgar Award (Critical/Biographical) Winner • Bram Stoker Award (Nonfiction) A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Pick of the Year Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, NPR, TIME, Boston Globe, NYLON, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Kirkus Reviews, and Booklist In this “thoughtful and persuasive” biography, award-winning biographer Ruth Franklin establishes Shirley Jackson as a “serious and accomplished literary artist” (Charles McGrath, New York Times Book Review). Instantly heralded for its “masterful” and “thrilling” portrayal (Boston Globe), Shirley Jackson reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the literary genius behind such classics as “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House. In this “remarkable act of reclamation” (Neil Gaiman), Ruth Franklin envisions Jackson as “belonging to the great tradition of Hawthorne, Poe and James” (New York Times Book Review) and demonstrates how her unique contribution to the canon “so uncannily channeled women’s nightmares and contradictions that it is ‘nothing...

A Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's "Charles"

Autor: Gale, Cengage Learning

Número de Páginas: 30

A Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's "Possibility of Evil"

Autor: Gale, Cengage Learning

Número de Páginas: 30

A Study Guide for Shirley Jackson's "Possibility of Evil," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

The Letters of Shirley Jackson

Autor: Shirley Jackson

Número de Páginas: 673

A bewitchingly brilliant collection of never-before-published letters from the renowned author of “The Lottery” and The Haunting of Hill House NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS • “This biography-through-letters gives an intimate and warm voice to the imagination behind the treasury of uncanny tales that is Shirley Jackson’s legacy.”—Joyce Carol Oates Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American authors of the last hundred years and among our greatest chroniclers of the female experience. This extraordinary compilation of personal correspondence has all the hallmarks of Jackson’s beloved fiction: flashes of the uncanny in the domestic, sparks of horror in the quotidian, and the veins of humor that run through good times and bad. i am having a fine time doing a novel with my left hand and a long story—with as many levels as grand central station—with my right hand, stirring chocolate pudding with a spoon held in my teeth, and tuning the television with both feet. Written over the course of nearly three decades, from Jackson’s college years to six days before her early death at the age of forty-eight, these letters become the...

Shirley Jackson

Autor: Joan Wylie Hall

Número de Páginas: 240

This book includes essays on Shirley Jackson's fiction, excerpts from her lectures on fiction writing, and scholars' comments on several of her short stories.

The Magic of Shirley Jackson

Autor: Shirley Jackson

Número de Páginas: 951

Experience The Magic of Shirley Jackson with this generous selection of the author's greatest work. This collection consists of three complete books: The Bird's Nest Life Among the Savages Raising Demons and eleven short stories--including the world-famous "The Lottery."

The classic collection of Shirley Jackson. Complete novels. Best stories. Illustrated

Autor: Shirley Jackson

Número de Páginas: 1612

Shirley Hardie Jackson was an American writer known primarily for her works of horror and mystery. Over the duration of her writing career, which spanned over two decades, she composed six novels, two memoirs, and more than 200 short stories. Contents: The Road Through the Wall Hangsaman The Bird's Nest The Sundial The Haunting of Hill House We Have Always Lived in the Castle The Lottery and Other Stories

Shirley Jackson, Influences and Confluences

Autor: Melanie R. Anderson , Lisa Kröger

Número de Páginas: 254

The popularity of such widely known works as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House has tended to obscure the extent of Shirley Jackson's literary output, which includes six novels, a prodigious number of short stories, and two volumes of domestic sketches. Organized around the themes of influence and intertextuality, this collection places Jackson firmly within the literary cohort of the 1950s. The contributors investigate the work that informed her own fiction and discuss how Jackson inspired writers of literature and film. The collection begins with essays that tease out what Jackson's writing owes to the weird tale, detective fiction, the supernatural tradition, and folklore, among other influences. The focus then shifts to Jackson's place in American literature and the impact of her work on women's writing, campus literature, and the graphic novelist Alison Bechdel. The final two essays examine adaptations of The Haunting of Hill House and Jackson's influence on contemporary American horror cinema. Taken together, the essays offer convincing evidence that half a century following her death, readers and writers alike are still finding value in Jackson’s words.

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Autor: Ruth Franklin

Número de Páginas: 0

Still known to millions primarily as the author of the "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) has been curiously absent from the mainstream American literary canon. A genius of literary suspense and psychological horror, Jackson plumbed the cultural anxiety of postwar America more deeply than anyone. Now, biographer Ruth Franklin reveals the tumultuous life and inner darkness of the author of such classics as The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Placing Jackson within an American Gothic tradition that stretches back to Hawthorne and Poe, Franklin demonstrates how her unique contribution to this genre came from her focus on "domestic horror." Almost two decades before The Feminine Mystique ignited the women’s movement, Jackson’ stories and nonfiction chronicles were already exploring the exploitation and the desperate isolation of women, particularly married women, in American society. Franklin’s portrait of Jackson gives us “a way of reading Jackson and her work that threads her into the weave of the world of words, as a writer and as a woman, rather than excludes her as an anomaly” (Neil Gaiman). The increasingly prescient Jackson...

Shirley Jackson

Autor: Kristopher Woofter

"From the short story "The Lottery" to the masterworks The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson's popular, oftenbestselling works experimented with popular generic forms (melodrama, folktale, horror, the Gothic, the Weird) to create a uniquely apocalyptic vision of America and its contradictions. With a Foreword by award-winning Jackson biographer Ruth Franklin, this collection features comprehensive critical engagement with Jackson's works, including those that have received less scholarly attention. Among these are the novels The Road Through the Wall, The Bird's Nest, and Hangsaman, as well as Jackson's historical study, The Witchcraft of Salem Village. Also included are essays on Jackson's darkly humorous collections Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons; on Stephen King's "literary friendship" with Jackson; on the little-known Jackson film adaptations Lizzie (1957) and Hosszú Alkony (Long Twillight) (1997); and the first-ever extended analysis devoted to Jackson's unpublished satirical cartoon sketches. The collection's five sections focus on Jackson's style, key themes, and influence; her politics and poetics of space; her...

Alphabetical Arrangement of Main Entries from the Shelf List

Autor: Union Theological Seminary (new York, N.y.). Library

Número de Páginas: 940

The Masterpieces of Shirley Jackson

Autor: Shirley Jackson

Número de Páginas: 531

This is a collection of three horror stories by Shirley Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House, The Turn of the Screw and The Lottery.

Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (LOA #204)

Autor: Shirley Jackson

Número de Páginas: 856

Features a collection of writings across different genres by the mid-twentieth-century author.

(Stevens') Directory of Southampton, and neighbourhood

Autor: Stevens' Directories And Publishing Co, Ltd

Número de Páginas: 732

Shirley Jackson

Autor: Lenemaja Friedman

Número de Páginas: 182

An evaluation and interpretation of the work of this unusual writer of novels and short stories.

Twentieth-century Short Story Explication

Autor: Warren S. Walker

Número de Páginas: 368

Contains nearly 6000 entries that provide a bibliography of interpretations for short stories published between 1989 and 1990.

Annual Report of the Bureau of Industries for the Province of Ontario

Autor: Ontario. Bureau Of Industries

Número de Páginas: 192

Includes statistics of agriculture, values, rents, farm wages, loan and investment companies, labor organizations, municipal statistics, etc.

Private Demons

Autor: Judy Oppenheimer

Número de Páginas: 304

A portrait of gifted author Shirley Jackson reveals her less-public life, including her horrifying descent into madness, and describes her work with the doctor who helped her back to sanity

Literature and the Writing Process

Autor: Elizabeth Mcmahan , Susan Day , Robert Funk

Número de Páginas: 1156

Popular World Fiction, 1900-present: Do-La

Autor: Walton Beacham , Suzanne Niemeyer

Número de Páginas: 536

Publishing and critical history of best-selling world fiction writers; critical evaluations of selected titles.

Shirley Jackson and Domesticity

Autor: Jill E. Anderson , Melanie R. Anderson

Número de Páginas: 353

Shirley Jackson and Domesticity takes on American horror writer Shirley Jackson's domestic narratives – those fictionalized in her novels and short stories as well as the ones captured in her memoirs – to explore the extraordinary and often supernatural ways domestic practices and the ecology of the home influence Jackson's storytelling. Examining various areas of homemaking – child-rearing and reproduction, housekeeping, architecture and spatiality, the housewife mythos – through the theoretical frameworks of gothic, queer, gender, supernatural, humor, and architectural studies, this collection contextualizes Jackson's archive in a Cold War framework and assesses the impact of the work of a writer seeking to question the status quo of her time and culture.

El reloj de sol

Autor: Shirley Jackson

Número de Páginas: 302

When the Halloran clan gathers at the family home for a funeral, no one is surprised when the somewhat peculiar Aunt Fanny wanders off into the secret garden. But then she returns to report an astonishing vision of an apocalypse from which only the Hallorans and their hangers-on will be spared, and the family finds itself engulfed in growing madness, fear, and violence as they prepare for a terrible new world.

Supernatural Fiction Writers

Autor: Richard Bleiler

Número de Páginas: 536

The "Scribner Writers Series has set the standard for literary reference for more than 25 years. In addition to addressing the lives and careers of important writers, the articles discuss the themes and a styles of major works and place them in pertinent historical, social and political concerns for today's readers. Novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, short story writers, and more recently, genre writers in science fiction and mystery, are all expertly discussed in the more than 17 sets comprising this series. To see listings of writers for any volume in this section, go to the "Scribner Writers Series section online at www.gale.com/scribners. J.K. Rowling, Peter Straub, Anne McCaffrey--these are among the many widely-read authors in fantasy and horror genres covered in this addition to Scribner's 1985 two-volume set. Essays written by scholars--yet accessible to the general reader and student--treat both writers who have risen to prominence since the 1985 edition, and those whose careers have continued since original coverage, such as Stephen King, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Harlan Ellison. The index cumulates the index from the first two volumes.

Shirley Jackson Collected Short Stories

Autor: Shirley Jackson

Número de Páginas: 0

Presents three short stories by noted author, Shirley Jackson.

Critical Survey of Long Fiction

Autor: Frank Northen Magill

Número de Páginas: 458

A Comprehensive study of long fiction authors, historical development and genres (early prose fiction, the novel and the novella).

The Lottery

Autor: Shirley Jackson

Número de Páginas: 32

A seemingly ordinary village participates in a yearly lottery to determine a sacrificial victim.

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