Stephen King / editor, Gary Hoppenstand.
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TextSeries: Critical insightsPublication details: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2011Description: viii, 344 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9781587656859 (vol. 1 : alk. paper)Subject(s): King, Stephen, 1947- -- Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3561.I483 | Z8783 2011
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-329) and index.
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.
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