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Book Synopsis Stephen King's Gothic by : John Sears
Download or read book Stephen King's Gothic written by John Sears and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 King's writing, and will be of interest to students, academics, and fans of horror fiction.
Book Synopsis Gothic Motifs in Stephen King's Work With Special Regard to Salem's Lot and The Shining by : Judith Schwickart
Download or read book Gothic Motifs in Stephen King's Work With Special Regard to Salem's Lot and The Shining written by Judith Schwickart and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Trier, course: Der englische Schauerroman, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Stephen King is one of the most published contemporary authors. He has written more than 50 novels and movie scripts, some of them under the pseudonym of Richard Bachmann. His stories deal with the supernatural, with aliens or the abysses of the human mind. Due to his topics, his books are often regarded as trivial literature by many of his readers and also by people who have never read a single one of his books and who only judge him by his name. But what these critics seem to miss is the fact that Stephen King has adapted many themes and motifs from highly regarded authors of classic Gothic fiction, such as Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and Bram Stoker, to mention just a few. In each of Stephen King’s books, the reader can identify traces of classic Gothic fiction, although the topics and settings are normally adapted to modern times. Stephen King says of himself that ‘most of my [Stephen King’s] books have been derivative to some extent...’ (Bloom, p.96), which is not surprising regarding his educational background: After studying English at the University of Maine, Stephen King worked as a high school teacher, although he did not get too much teaching practice due to the commercial success of his books. Therefore, it is not very surprising that Stephen King uses the sources he has become acquainted with during his studies. He uses the motifs of Gothic novels in different ways and in many of his books. In fact, he says that ‘what I [Stephen King] try to do...is to pour new wine from old bottles’ (Bloom, p.96). What I would like to do in this term paper is to show some of the Gothic motifs Stephen King uses in his books and in what way he uses them. For this purpose, I have chosen two novels from Stephen King’s earlier working period: Salem’s Lot and The Shining. But before actually beginning the comparison between Stephen King’s books and classic Gothic novels I will give an overview over the characteristic features of Gothic writing in order to enable the reader to identify the tradition Stephen King’s writing stands in.
Book Synopsis Stephen King's Gothic by : John Sears
Download or read book Stephen King's Gothic written by John Sears and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Gothic King - Stephen King und die Tradition der Schauerliteratur by : Thorsten Wilms
Download or read book The Gothic King - Stephen King und die Tradition der Schauerliteratur written by Thorsten Wilms and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 1,00, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Philosophische Fakultät), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit geht der Frage nach, in wie weit der populäre Gattungsbegriff „Horror“, mit dem Stephen King allgemein identifiziert wird, ausreicht, um seine Werke zu beschreiben. Ist King nicht viel eher ein Repräsentant der „Gothic Fiction“ bzw. des geographisch einschränkenden Begriffs „American Gothic Fiction“, welches in erster Linie Elemente der „Novels of Terror“ und seltener der „Novels of Horror“ aufgreift? Die Arbeit ist in zwei Teile gegliedert, welche sich von einem umfassenden Überblick, bis hin zu einer detaillierten Analyse einzelner Stilmittel, dem Autor und seinen Werken nähern. Der erste Teil schafft eine Übersicht und eine wissenschaftliche Basis über das Genre Gothic Fiction und die stattfindenden Weiterentwicklungen von Gothic Fiction in Amerika. Dass die politischen und gesellschaftlichen Situationen der jeweiligen Zeit einen großen Einfluss speziell auf Gothic Fiction hatten und haben, verdeutlicht die Betrachtung der American Gothic. Die Entwicklung des Gothic Genres in der Moderne wird ebenfalls im ersten Teil der Arbeit beleuchtet. Der zweite Teil dieser Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Autor Stephen King und seinen Texten. Hier erfolgt die Anwendung der im ersten Teil definierten Kategorien. Zur Einordnung von Kings Werken und zur Herausarbeitung der Gothic Tradition geht Wilms auf die Entwicklung und die Person des Autors ein und analysiere die politische und gesellschaftliche Situation der 70er Jahre. Hier wird deutlich, dass King sich seiner literarischen Vorgänger durchaus bewusst ist und die Konventionen der Gothic Fiction, speziell der American Gothic Fiction nutzt, um seine Romane auf zwei Ebenen wirken zu lassen: Als Erzählungen, die „excessive emotions“ im Leser generieren, und als Artikulation der Schattenseiten Amerikas und seiner Geschichte. Die kritische Rezeption würdigte dies bisher nur in Maßen, was auf den Umstand zurückzuführen ist, dass Literaturkritiker die Popularität von Stephen King nicht mit der dem American Gothic eigenen Subversivität in Einklang bringen können. Diese Arbeit will zeigen, dass Stephen Kings Werke ein Beispiel für kommerziell erfolgreiche und gleichzeitig subversive Literatur sind. Zum Autor: Herr Wilms gehörte ebenfalls zum Redaktionsteam der beiden Reiseführer-Besteseller „WeekendLovers 1&2“ (DuMont Reiseverlag) und ist Redakteur des Horror-Magazins "Virus".
Book Synopsis Landscape of Fear by : Tony Magistrale
Download or read book Landscape of Fear written by Tony Magistrale and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the very first books to take Stephen King seriously, Landscape of Fear (originally published in 1988) reveals the source of King's horror in the sociopolitical anxieties of the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate era. In this groundbreaking study, Tony Magistrale shows how King's fiction transcends the escapism typical of its genre to tap into our deepest cultural fears: "that the government we have installed through the democratic process is not only corrupt but actively pursuing our destruction, that our technologies have progressed to the point at which the individual has now become expendable, and that our fundamental social institutions-school, marriage, workplace, and the church-have, beneath their veneers of respectability, evolved into perverse manifestations of narcissism, greed, and violence." Tracing King's moralist vision to the likes of Twain, Hawthorne, and Melville, Landscape of Fear establishes the place of this popular writer within the grand tradition of American literature. Like his literary forbears, King gives us characters that have the capacity to make ethical choices in an imperfect, often evil world. Yet he inscribes that conflict within unmistakably modern settings. From the industrial nightmare of "Graveyard Shift" to the breakdown of the domestic sphere in The Shining, from the techno-horrors of The Stand to the religious fanaticism and adolescent cruelty depicted in Carrie, Magistrale charts the contours of King's fictional landscape in its first decade.
Book Synopsis Dissecting Stephen King by : Heidi Strengell
Download or read book Dissecting Stephen King written by Heidi Strengell and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a thoughtful, well-informed study exploring fiction from throughout Stephen King's immense oeuvre, Heidi Strengell shows how this popular writer enriches his unique brand of horror by building on the traditions of his literary heritage. Tapping into the wellsprings of the gothic to reveal contemporary phobias, King invokes the abnormal and repressed sexuality of the vampire, the hubris of Frankenstein, the split identity of the werewolf, the domestic melodrama of the ghost tale. Drawing on myths and fairy tales, he creates characters who, like the heroic Roland the Gunslinger and the villainous Randall Flagg, may either reinforce or subvert the reader's childlike faith in society. And in the manner of the naturalist tradition, he reinforces a tension between the free will of the individual and the daunting hand of fate. Ultimately, Strengell shows how King shatters our illusions of safety and control: "King places his decent and basically good characters at the mercy of indifferent forces, survival depending on their moral strength and the responsibility they may take for their fellow men."
Book Synopsis The Gothic World of Stephen King by : Gary Hoppenstand
Download or read book The Gothic World of Stephen King written by Gary Hoppenstand and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen King’s popularity lies in his ability to reinterpret the standard Gothic tale in new and exciting ways. Through his eyes, the conventional becomes unconventional and wonderful. King thus creates his own Gothic world and then interprets it for us. This book analyzes King’s interpretations and his mastery of popular literature. The essays discuss adolescent revolt, the artist as survivor, the vampire in popular literature, and much more.
Book Synopsis Stephen King in the New Millennium by : Despoina N. Feleki
Download or read book Stephen King in the New Millennium written by Despoina N. Feleki and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting exploration of Stephen King’s digital writing maneuvers and electronic ventures on online platforms and e-readers unravels the author’s latest writing techniques and justifies his unprecedented success in the new millennium. It investigates the latest additions to the Master of Horror’s “toolbox” by studying King’s media presence and writing oeuvre in the twenty-first century through online projects, such as his videogame Discordia. The book closely traces King’s shifts from print to the digital as he crafts his stories to share with his constant readers. Its examination of King’s re-vitalized Gothic sheds light on his shift towards new realizations that take into consideration the needs and tastes of the contemporary consuming public in a constant dialogue with their contemporary fears and anxieties. While exploring King’s literary generic and technological crossovers, the book stresses the need for an encompassing theory that takes into account literary tradition, norms, and motifs adjusted according to the materialities and technological specificities of each medium in specific socio-cultural and economic contexts.
Book Synopsis Gothic Fiction, Liminality, and Popular Culture by : Christine Mazur
Download or read book Gothic Fiction, Liminality, and Popular Culture written by Christine Mazur and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dark Forces at Work by : Cynthia J. Miller
Download or read book Dark Forces at Work written by Cynthia J. Miller and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Forces at Work examines the role of race, class, gender, religion, and the economy as they are portrayed in, and help construct, horror narratives across a range of films and eras. These larger social forces not only create the context for our cinematic horrors, but serve as connective tissue between fantasy and lived reality, as well. While several of the essays focus on “name” horror films such as IT, Get Out, Hellraiser, and Don’t Breathe, the collection also features essays focused on horror films produced in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and on American classic thrillers such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Key social issues addressed include the war on terror, poverty, the housing crisis, and the Time’s Up movement. The volume grounds its analysis in the films, rather than theory, in order to explore the ways in which institutions, identities, and ideologies work within the horror genre.
Book Synopsis The Literary Haunted House by : Rebecca Janicker
Download or read book The Literary Haunted House written by Rebecca Janicker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The haunted house of American fiction is an iconic union of setting and theme with an enduring presence in popular culture that traces its lineage to the early English Gothic novels. Blurring the boundaries between past and present, the living and the dead, the haunted house—synonymous with the dark side of domesticity—challenges accepted notions of reality and wields a special power over the reader’s imagination. Focusing on the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson and Stephen King, this critical work offers a fresh perspective on one of the most popular motifs in American fiction. Case studies demonstrate how these authors have kept the past alive while highlighting the complexities of modern society, using their ghostly tales to celebrate and challenge 20th century American history and culture.
Book Synopsis The Theological Turn in Contemporary Gothic Fiction by : Simon Marsden
Download or read book The Theological Turn in Contemporary Gothic Fiction written by Simon Marsden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines theological themes and resonances in post-1970 Gothic fiction. It argues that contemporary Gothic is not simply a secularised genre, but rather one that engages creatively – and often subversively – with theological texts and traditions. This creative engagement is reflected in Gothic fiction’s exploration of theological concepts including sin and evil, Christology and the messianic, resurrection, eschatology and apocalypse. Through readings of fiction by Gothic and horror writers including Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Straub, William Peter Blatty and others, this book demonstrates that Christianity continues to haunt the Gothic imagination and that the genre’s openness to the mysterious, numinous and non-rational opens space in which to explore religious beliefs and experiences less easily accessible to more overtly realist forms of representation. The book offers a new perspective on contemporary Gothic fiction that will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Gothic and of the relationship between literature and religion more generally.
Book Synopsis Stephen King's Contemporary Classics by : Philip L. Simpson
Download or read book Stephen King's Contemporary Classics written by Philip L. Simpson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the more recent works of fiction by Stephen King as well as an examination of his nonfiction book, On Writing, published in 2000. Works discussed in this volume include Duma Key, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Under the Dome, Joyland, and Dr. Sleep.
Book Synopsis Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media by : Aspasia Stephanou
Download or read book Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media written by Aspasia Stephanou and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and the nonorganic. The author explores how materiality lends itself ideally to discussions of gothic and horror and acts as a threat to attempts to control meaning which falls outside the realm of consciousness. It brings the two together by examining the manifestations of this materiality to focus on a form of horror that is concerned with the (in) human by reading blood as the conduit of an unnameable materiality that circulates through gothic media, seducing with its familiar mask of gothic aesthetics only to uncover the horror of a totally alienating and inhuman otherness. Film, media, popular culture, philosophy and nineteenth-century literature are brought together and juxtaposed to create a continuity of ideas, and highlighting differences. The book offers innovative readings of notions of blood inscription in different media, of the Dark Web, accelerationism and technoscience to account for the widespread haemophilia in contemporary culture. This title is an essential read for researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students in film studies, media studies, literature, philosophy, cultural theory and popular culture. Its interdisciplinary nature, clear exposition of thought and theoretical ideas will make it a key resource for both students and for general readers with an interest in contemporary horror, media and pop culture. differences. The book offers innovative readings of notions of blood inscription in different media, of the Dark Web, accelerationism and technoscience to account for the widespread haemophilia in contemporary culture. This title is an essential read for researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students in film studies, media studies, literature, philosophy, cultural theory and popular culture. Its interdisciplinary nature, clear exposition of thought and theoretical ideas will make it a key resource for both students and for general readers with an interest in contemporary horror, media and pop culture.
Book Synopsis Stephen King and the Uncanny Imaginary by : Erin Mercer
Download or read book Stephen King and the Uncanny Imaginary written by Erin Mercer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an insightful examination of Stephen King’s fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freud’s theory of the uncanny. It demonstrates how entrenched King’s work is in a literary tradition influenced by psychoanalytic theory, as well as the ways that King evades and amends Freud. Such an approach positions King’s texts not simply as objects of interpretation that might yield latent meaning, but as producers of meaning. King can certainly be read through the lens of the uncanny, but this book also aims to consider the uncanny through the lens of King. Organised around specific elements of the uncanny that can be found in King’s fiction, this book explores the themes of death and the return of the dead, monstrosity, telepathy, inanimate objects becoming menacingly animate, and spooky children. Popular texts are considered, such as IT, The Shining, and Pet Sematary, as well as less discussed work, including The Institute, The Regulators and Desperation. The book’s central argument is that King’s uncanny motifs offer insightful commentary on what is repressed in contemporary culture and insist on the failure of scientific rationalism to explain the world. King’s uncanny imaginary rejects dualistic notions of an experiencing self in an inert physical world and insists that psychic experience is bound up with the environmental. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary and popular literature, gothic and horror studies, and cultural studies.
Book Synopsis Stephen Kings Der dunkle Turm, Band 14 - Drei - Die Herrin der Schatten by : Stephen King
Download or read book Stephen Kings Der dunkle Turm, Band 14 - Drei - Die Herrin der Schatten written by Stephen King and published by Panini. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roland Deschains, der Revolvermann, und Eddie Dean, der Türöffner, sind auf der Suche nach dem dritten Mitglied ihres Ka-Tets. An dieser Stelle kommt Odetta Holmes in Spiel, eine wohlhabende schwarze Bürgerrechtsaktivistin aus den Südstaaten. Doch die Erbin des Zahnmedizin-Zuliefergiganten Holmes Dental Industries hat ein dunkles Geheimnis - und um dieses Geheimnis zu ergründen, gilt es, sich den tragischen Ereignissen in Odettas Jugend zu stellen.
Book Synopsis Science and Destabilization in the Modern American Gothic by : David Oakes
Download or read book Science and Destabilization in the Modern American Gothic written by David Oakes and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2000-06-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writers of Gothic literature reflect in their works the concerns and fears of the times in which they were created. These fears, in turn, destabilize the reader; that is, they create within the reader a sense of uneasiness characteristic of the Gothic genre, an uneasiness that comes from the challenging of social and cultural conventions or cherished beliefs. In doing so, these works are also cultural artifacts, for they reflect issues central to society at a given point in time. This book examines the process of destabilization in the modern American Gothic. The volume focuses on the works of three popular 20th-century Gothic writers: H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson, and Stephen King. It argues that science and technology are central to the destabilization process in works by these authors, and it demonstrates how, as cultural artifacts, their writings reflect the fears and concerns of contemporary society. Thus the volume demonstrates how the works of these authors remain within the Gothic literary tradition, while they simultaneously adapt that tradition for a modern audience.
