American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty

American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty
	Trade Paperback
Author	Benjamin Szumskyj
Cover artist	McFarland Publishing
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	McFarland Publishing
Publication date	2008
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	204
ISBN	978-0-7864-3597-5
OCLC	228608101
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 22
LC Class	PS3552.L392 Z55 2008

American Exorcist: Critical Essays on William Peter Blatty (2008) is an anthology 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

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