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American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty

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Cover artist
  
McFarland Publishing

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
2008

Page count
  
204

Publisher
  
McFarland & Company

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
2008

Pages
  
204

Author
  
Benjamin Szumskyj

Genre
  
Non-fiction

Editor
  
Benjamin Szumskyj

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American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty (2008) is a collection of essays studying all of William Peter Blatty's novels, from Which Way to Mecca, Jack? (1959) to Elsewhere (2009).

Contents

  • "So Much Mystery...": The Fiction of William Peter Blatty by Scott D. Briggs
  • Lebanon, the Fightin' Irish, and Billy Shakespeare: The Comic Novels of William Peter Blatty by John Goodrich
  • Fear of the Assimilation of the Foreign Other in The Exorcist by Philip L. Simpson
  • A Devil for the Day: William Peter Blatty, Ira Levin, and the Revision of the Satanic by John Langan
  • The Horror of The Exorcist: Its Presentation and Confrontation by J. W. Ocker
  • Some Thoughts on The Ninth Configuration by Henrik Sandbeck Harksen
  • Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane! and The Ninth Configuration: A Comparison by Ryan Streat
  • "Foot, You Are Wise!": The Apologetic Structure of The Ninth Configuration by Geoffrey Reiter
  • The Exorcist and Legion: Religious Horrors by Tim Kroenert
  • The Devilish God: William Peter Blatty's Legion and the Problem of Evil by James Doig
  • Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing: A Fable: The Theo-Illogical, Semi-Autobiographical Epic Film That Never Was by Michael Garrett
  • It Ain't Over Till the Fat Lady Sings: William Peter Blatty's Elsewhere and the Haunted House Formula by Davide Mana
  • The Exegesis of William Peter Blatty: Catholicism, Exorcism & Pazuzu by Benjamin Szumskyj

    • References

    American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty Wikipedia
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