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Dissecting Stephen King : from the Gothic to literary naturalism /
"Heidi Strengell shows that by tapping into the wellsprings of the gothic to reveal contemporary phobias, Stephen 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 o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wis. :
University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | Ray and Pat Browne Book Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- King, his world, and its character
- Interpreter of the postmodern condition
- King's brand of horror
- pt. 1. The gothic in King's works
- Abnormal and repressed sexuality (the Vampire)
- Hubris and death (Frankenstein's Monster)
- The gothic double (the Werewolf)
- The gothic melodrama (the Ghost)
- pt. 2. Myths and fairy tales in King's works
- The hero as a generic hybrid (Roland the Gunslinger)
- The antihero as a generic hybrid (Randall Flagg)
- Adapted and revised myths and fairy tales
- Mythical and fairy-tale themes
- pt. 3. Literary naturalism in King's works
- Free will and responsibility
- Genetic and sociological determinism
- Cosmological determinism and fate
- Metafictional determinism
- Conclusion
- Appendix : A note on previous criticism.