Dissecting Stephen King

Author : Heidi Strengell
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299209741

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Dissecting Stephen King by Heidi Strengell Pdf

In a thoughtful, well-informed study exploring fiction from throughout Stephen King's immense oeuvre, Heidi Strengell shows how this popular writer enriches his unique brand of horror by building on the traditions of his literary heritage. Tapping into the wellsprings of the gothic to reveal contemporary phobias, King invokes the abnormal and repressed sexuality of the vampire, the hubris of Frankenstein, the split identity of the werewolf, the domestic melodrama of the ghost tale. Drawing on myths and fairy tales, he creates characters who, like the heroic Roland the Gunslinger and the villainous Randall Flagg, may either reinforce or subvert the reader's childlike faith in society. And in the manner of the naturalist tradition, he reinforces a tension between the free will of the individual and the daunting hand of fate. Ultimately, Strengell shows how King shatters our illusions of safety and control: "King places his decent and basically good characters at the mercy of indifferent forces, survival depending on their moral strength and the responsibility they may take for their fellow men."

Author : Marcia Amidon Lüsted
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Horror tales, American
ISBN : 1616135360

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How to Analyze the Works of Stephen King by Marcia Amidon Lüsted Pdf

This title explores the creative works of famous novelist Stephen King. Books analyzed include Carrie, The Green Mile, The Stand, and the Dark Tower series. Clear, comprehensive text gives background biographical information of King. “You Critique It” feature invites readers to analyze other creative works on their own. A table of contents, timeline, list of works, resources, source notes, glossary, and an index are also included. Essential Critiques is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Author : Rebecca Frost
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793646224

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The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King by Rebecca Frost Pdf

The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Plots examines over thirty of King’s works and looks at the character deaths within them, placing them first within the chronology of the plot and then assigning them a function. Death is horrific and perhaps the only universal horror because it comes to us all. Stephen King, known as the Master of Horror, rarely writes without including death in his works. However, he keeps death from being repetitious or fully expected because of the ways in which he plays with the subject, maintaining what he himself has called a childlike approach to death. Although character deaths are a constant, the narrative function of those deaths changes depending on their placement within the plot. By separating out the purposes of early deaths from those that come during the rising action or during the climax, this book examines the myriad ways character deaths in King can affect surviving characters and therefore the plot. Even though character deaths are frequent and hardly ever occur only once in a book, King’s varying approaches to, and uses of, these deaths show how he continues to play with both the subject and its facets of horror throughout his work.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0451925718

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Stephen King 58 by Stephen King Pdf

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501175466

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It by Stephen King Pdf

Includes a selection from Sleeping beauties by Stephen and Owen King after page 1157 (to be published in Sept. 2017).

Author : Tony Magistrale,Anthony Magistrale
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Didactic fiction, American
ISBN : 9781557420701

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The Moral Voyages of Stephen King by Tony Magistrale,Anthony Magistrale Pdf

Magistrale discusses the themes that turn King's fiction into morality tales.

Author : George Beahm,Beahm
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0836269144

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Stephen King from A to Z by George Beahm,Beahm Pdf

Contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the life and work of popular novelist Stephen King.

Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0451925726

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Stephen King 42 by Stephen King Pdf

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438115443

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Stephen King by Harold Bloom Pdf

Provides a biography of author Stephen King along with critical views of his work.

Author : John Sears
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783164714

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Stephen King's Gothic by John Sears Pdf

Explores the works of Stephen King, one of the world’s best-selling horror writers, through the lenses offered by contemporary literary and cultural theory. This title argues that King’s writing explores many of the issues analysed by critics and philosophers.

Author : Tony Magistrale
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781557421333

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Discovering Stephen King's The Shining by Tony Magistrale Pdf

A survey of criticism on King's book and Kubrick's film adaptation "The Shining."

Author : Jonathan P. Davis
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879726482

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Stephen King's America by Jonathan P. Davis Pdf

Follows themes relating to life in America as they thread through the many works of popular horror writer King. Among them are personal morality, childhood innocence and adult corruption, technology, capitalism, autonomy and conformity, and survival. Includes four interviews with experts on King's writing. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Philip L. Simpson,Patrick McAleer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442244917

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Stephen King's Contemporary Classics by Philip L. Simpson,Patrick McAleer Pdf

Many readers know Stephen King for his early works of horror, from his fiction debut Carrie to his blockbuster novels The Shining, The Stand, and Misery, among others. While he continues to be a best-selling author, King’s more recent fiction has not received the kind of critical attention that his books from the 1970s and 1980s enjoyed. Recent novels like Duma Key and 1/22/63 have been marginalized and, arguably, cast aside as anomalies within the author’s extensive canon. In Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror, Philip L. Simpson and Patrick McAleer present a collection of essays that analyze, assess, and critique King’s post-1995 compositions. Purposefully side-stepping studies of earlier work, these essays are arranged into three main parts: the first section examines five King novels published between 2009 and 2013, offering genuinely fresh scholarship on King; the second part looks at the development of King’s distinct brand of horror; the third section departs from probing the content of King’s writing and instead focuses on King’s process. By concentrating on King’s most recent writings, this collection offers provocative insights into the author’s work, featuring essays on Dr. Sleep, Duma Key, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Joyland, Under the Dome, and others. As such, Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics will appeal to general fans of the author’s work as well as scholars of Stephen King and modern literature.

Author : Karin Susan Coddon
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : PSU:000056293319

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Readings on Stephen King by Karin Susan Coddon Pdf

This anthology collects representative critical essays, reviews, and commentary from the author himself about his body of work. King's life, his development as a writer, his literary influences, and important themes and motifs in his fiction are considered from a variety of perspectives, including feminist theory, sociological criticism, and the traditions of Gothic horror.

Author : Tony Magistrale
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879724056

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Landscape of Fear by Tony Magistrale Pdf

One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, Landscape of Fear (originally published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in the sociopolitical anxieties of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era. In this groundbreaking study, Tony Magistrale shows how King's fiction transcends the escapism typical of its genre to tap into our deepest cultural fears: "that the government we have installed through the democratic process is not only corrupt but actively pursuing our destruction, that our technologies have progressed to the point at which the individual has now become expendable, and that our fundamental social institutions-school, marriage, workplace, and the church-have, beneath their veneers of respectability, evolved into perverse manifestations of narcissism, greed, and violence." Tracing King's moralist vision to the likes of Twain, Hawthorne, and Melville, Landscape of Fear establishes the place of this popular writer within the grand tradition of American literature. Like his literary forbears, King gives us characters that have the capacity to make ethical choices in an imperfect, often evil world. Yet he inscribes that conflict within unmistakably modern settings. From the industrial nightmare of "Graveyard Shift" to the breakdown of the domestic sphere in The Shining, from the techno-horrors of The Stand to the religious fanaticism and adolescent cruelty depicted in Carrie, Magistrale charts the contours of King's fictional landscape in its first decade.