Stephen King's contemporary classics : reflections on the modern master of horror /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Simpson, Philip L., 1964- (Editor), McAleer, Patrick, 1980- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Series:Contemporary American literature (Rowman & Littlefield, Inc.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Contemporary "classics." Ordinary miracles: Stephen King's writing (and painting) a way back to life in Duma Key / Hayley Mitchell Haugen
  • Narrative structure in Under the dome / Jennifer 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
  • 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 / Matt 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: serial killers in the works of Stephen King / Rebecca Frost
  • Stephen King and writing. How to draw a king: Duma Key, a Blues aesthetic, and The American 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.