Author: Rebecca Frost
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793646228
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King
Author: Rebecca Frost
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793646228
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793646228
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
Scaring Us to Death
Author: Michael R. Collings
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0930261372
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
In this revised and expanded edition of "The Stephen King Phenomenon," Dr. Michael R. Collings re-examines the impact of Stephen King on popular culture.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0930261372
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
In this revised and expanded edition of "The Stephen King Phenomenon," Dr. Michael R. Collings re-examines the impact of Stephen King on popular culture.
The Annotated Guide to Stephen King
Author: Michael R. Collings
Publisher: Millefleurs
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Publisher: Millefleurs
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Moral Voyages of Stephen King
Author: Tony Magistrale
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 155742070X
Category : Didactic fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Magistrale discusses the themes that turn King's fiction into morality tales.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 155742070X
Category : Didactic fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Magistrale discusses the themes that turn King's fiction into morality tales.
Readings on Stephen King
Author: Karin Susan Coddon
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
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.
The Two Dead Girls
Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501138286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
The Green Mile, Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel, was first published twenty years ago in six original paperback installments. Inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks about an innocent man on death row, The Green Mile is now available for the first time in e-serial form. Two Dead Girls is Volume One. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile—the prison’s death row. This is the story, told by former guard Paul Edgecombe, of what happened there in 1932 when an unusual inmate named John Coffey arrives. Condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity, he has the body of a giant and the mind of a child. But there’s something about Coffey that makes Paul question if this man could have committed that crime. He is a rare, gentle spirit along the Green Mile.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501138286
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
The Green Mile, Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestselling novel, was first published twenty years ago in six original paperback installments. Inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks about an innocent man on death row, The Green Mile is now available for the first time in e-serial form. Two Dead Girls is Volume One. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile—the prison’s death row. This is the story, told by former guard Paul Edgecombe, of what happened there in 1932 when an unusual inmate named John Coffey arrives. Condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity, he has the body of a giant and the mind of a child. But there’s something about Coffey that makes Paul question if this man could have committed that crime. He is a rare, gentle spirit along the Green Mile.
The Stephen King Companion
Author: George W. Beahm
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Not a reference book, but a pretty good fan book. Covers King's career, criticism, synopses, transcriptions to film and audio. Illustrated with pictures of King, covers, movie sets. Public libraries will need gobs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Not a reference book, but a pretty good fan book. Covers King's career, criticism, synopses, transcriptions to film and audio. Illustrated with pictures of King, covers, movie sets. Public libraries will need gobs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Fear Itself
Author: Tim Underwood
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN:
Category : Horror tales
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN:
Category : Horror tales
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Stephen King
Author: Rocky Wood
Publisher: Kanrock Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
99 dark secrets from the world of Stephen King. The most informative look yet at the dark secrets of the Stephen King world. 48 tales by the master of horror that have never been included in a Stephen King collection; and 51 stories that have never been published.
Publisher: Kanrock Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
99 dark secrets from the world of Stephen King. The most informative look yet at the dark secrets of the Stephen King world. 48 tales by the master of horror that have never been included in a Stephen King collection; and 51 stories that have never been published.
The Stephen King Phenomenon
Author: Michael R. Collings
Publisher: Millefleurs
ISBN:
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher: Millefleurs
ISBN:
Category : Horror tales, American
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description