Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 298
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4422-3480-2 • Hardback • May 2014 • $105.00 • (£70.00)
978-1-4422-3481-9 • eBook • May 2014 • $99.50 • (£65.00)
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.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: “It Looks Like You Need a Doctor”Part One: Classic WhoChapter 1: Doctor who? What's he talking about?: Performativity and the First Doctor, Dene OctoberChapter 2: A Contribution to Dialogue: Doctor Who and the (Un)Spoken Word, Andrew O’DayChapter 3: “The Moment Has Been Prepared For”: Regeneration and Language in “Logopolis” and “Castrovalva,” Rhonda KnightChapter 4: Sensation, Serialization, and Seven: Reading Doctor Who as a Mid-Victorian Text through “Ghost Light,” Sam MaggsChapter 5: The Sylvester McCoy Era of Target Books and the Literary Experience, Ramie TateishiChapter 6: The Doctor’s Wondrous Wandering Dialectic Approach to the Universe, Sheila SandapenPart Two: New WhoChapter 7: The Wolf, the Sparrow, and the River: Feminine Empowerment through Graffiti, Camille D. G. MustachioChapter 8: Translation Failure: The TARDIS, Cross-Temporal Language Contact, and Medieval Travel Narrative, Jonathan HsyChapter 9: Brave New Words: Theatre as Magic in "The Shakespeare Code," Buket AkgünChapter 10: A Utopia of Words: Doctor Who, Shakespeare, and the Gendering of Utopia, Delilah Bermudez BrataasChapter 11: Silence in the Archives: The Magic of Libraries, Valerie Estelle FrankelChapter 12: Destructive Texts and the Uncanny in “Human Nature”/”Family of Blood,” Dana ForeChapter 13: “All Your Little Tin Soldiers”: Doctor Who and the Language of the First World War, David BudgenChapter 14: Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes and Myths in Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who, Anne MalewskiChapter 15: The Language of Myth: Violence and the Sacred in Doctor Who, Lori A. Davis PerryChapter 16: The Doctor and Amy Pond: A Bedtime Story, Michael BillingsChapter 17: Language Games in the Whoniverse, Erica MooreChapter 18: The Discourse of Authenticity in the Doctor Who Fan Community, Katie Booth and Paul Booth