Stephen King's gothic /
Sears, John
Stephen King's gothic / John Sears. - Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 2011 - 1 online resource (viii, 261 pages) - Gothic literary studies .
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Literary Reference Center Collection Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index. English. Print version record.
Article Abstract: "Stephen King's Gothic reassesses this major contemporary Gothic writer through close and detailed readings of key works ranging from his earliest writings (Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, the Shining) to such recent novels as Duma Kay. Informed by and extensively applying concepts deriving from contemporary literary and cultural theory, and engaging closely throughout with King's texts and with his comments in his own critical writings and interviews, John Sears argues that King's particular revisions of major Gothic themes, writings and traditions can best be understood as being closely related to his recurrent concerns with the act and products of writing itself. These concerns, Sears suggests, are detectable throughout King's oeuvre and are structural to his Gothic vision. Key themes addressed include Gothic traditions and their connections to such related genres as science fiction, Gothic representations of time, space, and place, Gothic monstrosity, and the constitution (in King's versions of it) of Gothic writing itself."--P [4] of cover
0708323464 9780708323465
King, Stephen, 1947- - Criticism and interpretation
King, Stephen, 1947-
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American - History and criticism
Horror tales, American - History and criticism
R�ecits d'horreur am�ericains - Histoire et critique
LITERARY CRITICISM - American - General
LITERARY CRITICISM - Gothic & Romance
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
Horror tales, American
Gothic novel
PS3561.I483 Z872 2011eb
Stephen King's gothic / John Sears. - Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 2011 - 1 online resource (viii, 261 pages) - Gothic literary studies .
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Literary Reference Center Collection Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-250) and index. English. Print version record.
Article Abstract: "Stephen King's Gothic reassesses this major contemporary Gothic writer through close and detailed readings of key works ranging from his earliest writings (Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, the Shining) to such recent novels as Duma Kay. Informed by and extensively applying concepts deriving from contemporary literary and cultural theory, and engaging closely throughout with King's texts and with his comments in his own critical writings and interviews, John Sears argues that King's particular revisions of major Gothic themes, writings and traditions can best be understood as being closely related to his recurrent concerns with the act and products of writing itself. These concerns, Sears suggests, are detectable throughout King's oeuvre and are structural to his Gothic vision. Key themes addressed include Gothic traditions and their connections to such related genres as science fiction, Gothic representations of time, space, and place, Gothic monstrosity, and the constitution (in King's versions of it) of Gothic writing itself."--P [4] of cover
0708323464 9780708323465
King, Stephen, 1947- - Criticism and interpretation
King, Stephen, 1947-
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American - History and criticism
Horror tales, American - History and criticism
R�ecits d'horreur am�ericains - Histoire et critique
LITERARY CRITICISM - American - General
LITERARY CRITICISM - Gothic & Romance
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
Horror tales, American
Gothic novel
PS3561.I483 Z872 2011eb