Excavating Stephen King : a Darwinist hermeneutic study of the fiction /
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Stephen King-fast food or five star?
- Part 1. Archetypes and universals. The hero's quest ; The trickster ; In the beginning...the creation of the multiverse ; Silenced by science: the anthropocene apocalypse in Cell
- part 2: Coevolution and human universals. The Stand: survival of the ethical fittest ; Religion: King as the "dark theologian" ; Free will: robots or wildcards? ; Navigating the past in 11/22/63 ; Nostalgia and things past
- part 3: Affective emotions. The battle of the sexes ; What's love got to do with it? ; Family and children ; Rage and sweet revenge ; Fear: why we like scary stories
- part 4: Darwinism and the arts. The symbolic animal: imagination and creativity ; The arts: soothing the savage beast ; King's symbolic animal: language and storytelling ; The thematic King ; The literary King
- Conclusion: Darwinist hermeneutics and Stephen King.