In focusing on Stephen King’s novel It (1986), this article focuses on the representation of the sewer system as an ‘apparatus’, not only considering intertextual tangencies (Hugo, Zola, Sue), but also applying the hermeneutical framework of Material Ecocriticism. In the case of It, the sewers become an urban body: the space of an irreversible contamination that can express an ‘ecophobic’ tension and, likewise, carry on a narrative on the side of the mismanagement of wastewater and the consequent pollution of ecosystems. it tied.
L’apparato di Derry. Visceralità fognarie in It di Stephen King / diego salvadori. - In: SYMBOLON. - ISSN 1126-0173. - STAMPA. - 13:(2022), pp. 287-303.
L’apparato di Derry. Visceralità fognarie in It di Stephen King
diego salvadori
2022
Abstract
In focusing on Stephen King’s novel It (1986), this article focuses on the representation of the sewer system as an ‘apparatus’, not only considering intertextual tangencies (Hugo, Zola, Sue), but also applying the hermeneutical framework of Material Ecocriticism. In the case of It, the sewers become an urban body: the space of an irreversible contamination that can express an ‘ecophobic’ tension and, likewise, carry on a narrative on the side of the mismanagement of wastewater and the consequent pollution of ecosystems. it tied.I documenti in FLORE sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.