Stephen King's contemporary classics reflections on the modern master of horror / edited by Philip L. Simpson and Patrick McAleer.
| Other author | Simpson, Philip L., 1964- |
| Other author | McAleer, Patrick, 1980- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015] |
| Description | xxi, 219 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Contemporary American literature |
| Contents | Introduction -- Part. I. Contemporary classics. "Ordinary miracles": Stephen King's writing (and painting) a "Way back to life" in Duma Key / Hayley Mitchell Haugen -- A tale of ambiguous morality: Narrative technique in Under the dome / Jennifer L. Miller -- "There's no place like dome": an assessment of the adaptation of Stephen King's Under the dome into a primetime drama / Tamara Watkins -- Reading Joyland and Dr. Sleep as complementary stories / Clotilde Landais -- Part II. Modern horrors. Failure is indeed an option: pride, prophecy, and Roland Deschain's Perpetual quest for the dark tower / Patrick McAleer -- Trisha McFarland and the tough tootsie: coping with fear in The girl who loved Tom Gordon / Matthew M. Holman -- "Morality": Stephen King's most disturbing story? / Philip L. Simpson -- In search for the lost object in a bad place: Stephen King's contemporary Gothic / Alexandra Reuber -- A different breed: Stephen King's serial killers / Rebecca Frost -- Stephen King and writing. How to draw a king: Duma Key, Blues, literary modernism, and the artist / Michael Perry -- It lurks beneath the fold: Stephen King, adaptation, and the pop-up text of The girl who loved Tom Gordon / Carl H. Sederholm -- Bachman's "found" novels: The regulators, Blaze, and author identity / Kimberly Beal -- King's toolbox for writing and for life? / Mika Elovaara -- The blue diamond / Steph Post. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014031930 |
| ISBN | 9781442244900 (hardback : alk. paper) |