{"product_id":"books-of-the-dead-9781496819062","title":"Books of the Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe zombie has cropped up in many forms--in film, in television, and as a cultural phenomenon in zombie walks and zombie awareness months--but few books have looked at what the zombie means in fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTim Lanzendörfer fills this gap by looking at a number of zombie novels, short stories, and comics, and probing what the zombie represents in contemporary literature. Lanzendörfer brings together the most recent critical discussion of zombies and applies it to a selection of key texts including Max Brooks's \u003cem\u003eWorld War Z\u003c\/em\u003e, Colson Whitehead's \u003cem\u003eZone One\u003c\/em\u003e, Junot Díaz's short story 'Monstro, ' Robert Kirkman's comic series \u003cem\u003eThe Walking Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eand Seth Grahame-Smith's \u003cem\u003ePride and Prejudice and Zombies\u003c\/em\u003e. Within the context of broader literary culture, Lanzendörfer makes the case for reading these texts with care and openness in their own right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLanzendörfer contends that what zombi\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195294314839,"sku":"9781496819062","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496819062.jpg?v=1763647070","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/books-of-the-dead-9781496819062","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}