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Stephen King's gothic / John Sears.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sears, John, 1965-
- Series:
- Gothic literary studies
- University of Wales Press - Gothic Literary Studies ; 48
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- King, Stephen, 1947---Criticism and interpretation.
- King, Stephen.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American--History and criticism.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. Stephen King is the world's best-selling horror writer. His work is ubiquitous on bookstore, supermarket, and personal library shelves and has been faithfully adapted into some of the most iconic horror films of the twentieth century. This study explores his writing through the lenses of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Through analyses of some of his best-known work, including Carrie and Misery, the authors argue that King offers ways of encountering and understanding some of our deepest fears about life and death, the past and the future, technological change, other people, monsters, ghosts, and the supernatural.This is the first extended critical-theoretical engagement with Kinga s writing, and will be of interest to students, academics, and fans of horror fiction.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Rereading Stephen King's Gothic
- Carrie's Gothic Script
- Disinterring, Doubling: King and Traditions
- Genre's Gothic Machinery
- Misery's Gothic Tropes
- Gothic Time in 'The Langoliers'
- 'This inhuman place': King's Gothic Places
- Facing Gothic Monstrosity
- Conclusion: King's Gothic Endings
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Published on behalf of the University of Wales Press.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 13, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-299-20100-8
- 0-7083-2346-4
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