TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoppenstand,Gary
TI  - Stephen King
T2  - Critical insights
SN  - 9781587656859 (alk. paper)
AV  - PS 3561 .I483 Z8785 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Pasadena, Calif.
PB  - Salem Press
KW  - King, Stephen,
N1  - Includes bibliographical references 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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