Encountering Pennywise - 9781496842220

Encountering PennywiseCritical Perspectives on Stephen Kings IT\nAuthor(s): Whitney S. May\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Mississippi, United States\nImprint: University Press of Mississippi\nISBN-13: 9781496842220, 978-1496842220\nSynopsis\nContributions by Amylou Ahava, Jeff Ambrose, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Daniel P. Compora, Penny Crofts, Keith Currie, Erin Giannini, Diganta Roy, Hannah Lina Schneeberger, Shannon S. Shaw, Maria Wiegel, and Margaret J. Yankovich\n\n First published in 1986, Stephen Kings novel IT forever changed the legacy of the literary clown. The subject of a TV miniseries and a two-part film adaptation and the inspiration for a resurgence of the evil clown figure in popular culture, IT's influence is undeniable, yet scholarship to date is almost exclusively devoted to the adaptations rather than the novel itself.\n\n Encountering Pennywise: Critical Perspectives on Stephen Kings \""IT\"" considers the pronounced cultural fluctuations of.