Language of Doctor Who

From Shakespeare to Alien Tongues
Herausgeber: Barr, Jason; Mustachio, Camille D. G.

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Produktbeschreibung

The BBC television series Doctor Who has been a cherished cornerstone of science fiction for five decades. This edited collection provides critical analyses of the series, connecting popular culture and academia through its exploration of the rich intersection of language, literature, and text in Doctor Who. Essays delve into a wide range of topics, from semantics to fandom and the power of the written word.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 637g
• ISBN-13: 9781442234802
• ISBN-10: 1442234806
• Artikelnr.: 40400952

Autorenporträt

Jason Barr teaches English at Blue Ridge Community College in Virginia. His articles have appeared in the African American Review, The Explicator, and Inquiry. Camille D. G. Mustachio is an English instructor at Germanna Community College. A specialist in medieval and Renaissance literature, she holds a BA and MA in English from George Mason University. She has published study guides for the American Shakespeare Center Resident Troupe on As You Like It, Macbeth, Othello, and The Tempest.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "It Looks Like You Need a Doctor"
Part One: Classic Who
Chapter 1: Doctor who? What's he talking about?: Performativity and the
First Doctor, Dene October
Chapter 2: A Contribution to Dialogue: Doctor Who and the (Un)Spoken Word,
Andrew O'Day
Chapter 3: "The Moment Has Been Prepared For": Regeneration and Language in
"Logopolis" and "Castrovalva," Rhonda Knight
Chapter 4: Sensation, Serialization, and Seven: Reading Doctor Who as a
Mid-Victorian Text through "Ghost Light," Sam Maggs
Chapter 5: The Sylvester McCoy Era of Target Books and the Literary
Experience, Ramie Tateishi
Chapter 6: The Doctor's Wondrous Wandering Dialectic Approach to the
Universe, Sheila Sandapen
Part Two: New Who
Chapter 7: The Wolf, the Sparrow, and the River: Feminine Empowerment
through Graffiti, Camille D. G. Mustachio
Chapter 8: Translation Failure: The TARDIS, Cross-Temporal Language
Contact, and Medieval Travel Narrative, Jonathan Hsy
Chapter 9: Brave New Words: Theatre as Magic in "The Shakespeare Code,"
Buket Akgün
Chapter 10: A Utopia of Words: Doctor Who, Shakespeare, and the Gendering
of Utopia, Delilah Bermudez Brataas
Chapter 11: Silence in the Archives: The Magic of Libraries, Valerie
Estelle Frankel
Chapter 12: Destructive Texts and the Uncanny in "Human Nature"/"Family of
Blood," Dana Fore
Chapter 13: "All Your Little Tin Soldiers": Doctor Who and the Language of
the First World War, David Budgen
Chapter 14: Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes and Myths in Steven Moffat's Doctor
Who, Anne Malewski
Chapter 15: The Language of Myth: Violence and the Sacred in Doctor Who,
Lori A. Davis Perry
Chapter 16: The Doctor and Amy Pond: A Bedtime Story, Michael Billings
Chapter 17: Language Games in the Whoniverse, Erica Moore
Chapter 18: The Discourse of Authenticity in the Doctor Who Fan Community,
Katie Booth and Paul Booth