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Stephen King / editor, Gary Hoppenstand, Michigan State University.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- King, Stephen, 1947---Criticism and interpretation.
- King, Stephen.
- King, Stephen, 1947-.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 344 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2011.
- Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- This book provides readers with in-depth, critical discussions of the life and works of Stephen King. A chronology of King's life, a complete list of King's works and their original dates of publication, a general bibliography, a detailed paragraph on the volume's editor, notes on the individual chapter authors, and a subject index are also provided.
- Contents:
- On Stephen King / Gary Hoppenstand
- Biography of Stephen King / Thomas B. Frazier ; updated by Gary Hoppenstand
- The Paris review perspective / Nathaniel Rich for The Paris review
- The popularity problem : Stephen King's cultural context / Amy Palko
- Stephen King's critical reception / Philip L. Simpson
- Writers and metafiction in three Stephen King texts / Dominick Grace
- The dark tower : Steven King's revision of Browning and Eliot / Matthew J. Bolton
- Surviving the ride / Clive Barker
- King and the critics / Michael R. Collings
- Do the dead sing? / Douglas E. Winter
- King, his world, and its characters / Heidi Strengell
- Taking Stephen King seriously : reflections on a decade of best-sellers / Samuel Schuman
- The struggle for personal morality in America / Jonathan P. Davis
- Toward defining an American Gothic : Stephen King and the romance tradition / Tony Magistrale
- Technohorror : the dystopian vision of Stephen King / James Egan
- The ending is only the beginning : genre and its influence on climax / Patrick McAleer
- A blind date with disaster : adolescent revolt in the fiction of Stephen King / Tom Newhouse
- Cotton Mather and Stephen King : writing/righting the body politic / Edward J. Ingebretsen
- The prisoner, the pen, and the number one fan : Misery as a prison film / Mary Findley.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Stephen King.
- ISBN:
- 9781587656866
- 1587656868
- OCLC:
- 721900542
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