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Stephen King and philosophy /
"Haunting us with such unforgettable stories as The Shining, Shawshank Redemption, Salem's Lot, Carrie, The Green Mile, and Pet Semetary, Stephen King has been an anchor of American horror, science fiction, psychological thrillers, and suspense for over forty years. His characters have bro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
2016.
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| Colección: | Great authors & philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: On Writing Popular Philosophy / Jacob M. Held
- There is no God in Desperation: Tak and the Problem of Evil / Jacob M. Held and C. Taylor Sutton
- Female Subjectivity in Stephen King's Carrie / Kellye Byal
- "Sometimes Death is Better": King, Daedalus, Dragon-Tyrants, and Deathism / Katherine Allen
- "Gan is Dead": Nietzsche and Roland's Eternal Recurrence / Garret Merriam
- Rāma of Gilead: Hindu Philosophy in The Dark Tower / Matthew A. Butkus
- What's Wrong with Roland? Utilitarianism and the Dark Tower / Greg Littman
- Stephen King and Aristotelian Friendship: An Analysis of The Body and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption / Bertha Alvarez Manninen
- Propaganda and Pedagogy for Apt Pupils / Michael K. Potter and Cam Cobb
- The Shining's Overlook Hotel as Heterotopia / Elizabeth Hornbeck
- Broadcast Dystopia: Power and Violence in The Running Man and The Long Walk / Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale
- Stephen King and the Art of Horror / Greg Littman
- "You weren't hired to philosophize, Torrance": The Death of the Author in The Shining / Charles Bane
- What Happens to the Present When it Becomes the Past: Time Travel and the Nature of Time in The Langoliers / Paul R. Daniels
- Notes on Foreknowledge, Truthmaking, and Counterfactuals from The Dead Zone / Tuomas W. Manninen
- Time Belongs to the Tower / Randall Auxier
- Ur 88,416 / Randall Auxier
- From Desperation to Haven: Horror, Compassion, and Arthur Schopenhauer / Jacob M. Held.