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Book SynopsisIn a richly developed fictional universe, Doctor Who, a wandering survivor of a once-powerful alien civilization, possesses powers beyond human comprehension. He can bend the fabric of time and space with his TARDIS, alter the destiny of worlds, and drive entire species into extinction. The good doctor's eleven regenerations and fifty years' worth of adventures make him the longest-lived hero in science-fiction television. In The Language of Doctor Who: From Shakespeare to Alien Tongues, Jason Barr and Camille D. G. Mustachio present several essays that use language as an entry point into the character and his universe. Ranging from the original to the rebooted television seriesthrough the adventures of the first eleven Doctorsthese essays explore how written and spoken language have been used to define the Doctor's ever-changing identities, shape his relationships with his many companions, and give him power over his enemieseven the implacable Daleks. Individual essays focus on fair
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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
