Book Description
Magistrale discusses the themes that turn King's fiction into morality tales.
Author : Tony Magistrale
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Didactic fiction, American
ISBN : 155742070X
Magistrale discusses the themes that turn King's fiction into morality tales.
Author : Tony Magistrale
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Didactic fiction, American
ISBN : 1557420718
Magistrale discusses the themes that turn King's fiction into morality tales.
Author : Anthony S. Magistrale
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Good and evil in literature
ISBN :
Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 1474 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307743683
A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, Colorado.
Author : Rebecca Frost
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1793646228
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 : Heidi Strengell
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299209742
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 : George Beahm
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 1998-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780836269147
Contains hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the life and work of popular novelist Stephen King.
Author : James Arthur Anderson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2024-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476653305
This book explores the techniques, themes, and subtexts in the fictional works of one of America's best-known and most-loved storytellers, Stephen King. Each of King's novels are analyzed in chronological order of their publication from Carrie to Holly. Every novel's analysis includes a background and summary, narrative devices, archetypes that influenced the novel, themes and subtexts, human universals, interesting facts, and notable quotes. As an invaluable resource for any Stephen King "Constant Reader" and students of literature in general, this work appreciates the beauty of King's fiction without needing to master the jargon of contemporary literary criticism.
Author : Sharon A. Russell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,63 MB
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313006768
Having endured an initially frigid critcal reception, personal struggles with addiction, and a mid-life accident that nearly killed him, Stephen King continues to reign as perhaps the most popular and prolific writer in America. This new edition of the critical companion to his works includes an expanded biographical chapter, featuring King's return to writing after his accident and his groundbreaking experiments in e-publishing. A full chapter is devoted to each of his eight most recently published works of fiction, offering thorough critical treatments of • Desperation (1996) • The Green Mile (1997) • The Regulators (1996) • Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997) • Bag of Bones (1998) • The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) • Hearts in Atlantis (1999 • Dreamcatcher (2001) Discussions of character development, thematic concerns, and issues of style and symbolism follow concise plot synopses. An alternate critical perspective is offered for each work. King achievements and placement in the horror genre are reconsidered, especially in light of his more recent forays into suspense fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and other areas of writing. The volume includes a selective list of further suggested readings includes biographical sources, general criticism, and reviews.
Author : Rebecca Frost
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476684731
Stephen King frequently places his human characters in danger against a supernatural antagonist. These characters, being realists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, must first overcome their disbelief at what is happening to them, and then decide what to do about it. Both their explanations for the strange happenings and their attempts to deal with them can be divided into four main categories: cultural appropriation; Christianity, especially Catholic rites; attempts at utter destruction; and a resignation to simply live--or die--with the supernatural intact. This book examines over 30 of King's works, revealing that the overall success of the characters in removing the supernatural threat from their towns, or perhaps defeating it entirely, does not depend fully on which of these four paths of action they choose. It is possible for any attempt to destroy the supernatural threat to fail, and what works in one of King's books will not have the same outcome in another. For King, the most likely success comes when his characters can choose a course of action that allows them to stand and be true to themselves.