Stephen King - Hoppenstand, Gary. (Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2011)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: King, Stephen, -- 1947- -- Criticism and interpretation