Linguistics of Stephen King

Layered Language and Meaning in the Fiction

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Stephen King, "America's Favorite Boogeyman," has sold over 350 million copies of his books, becoming in effect the face of horror fiction. His influence on popular culture has drawn both strong praise and harsh criticism from reviewers and scholars alike. While his popularity cannot be overstated, his work has received relatively little critical attention from the academic world.Examining King's fiction using modern literary theory, this study reveals the unexpected complexity of 22 short stories and novels, from Carrie to End of Watch. The author finds King using fantasy and horror to expose truths about reality and the human condition.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:336 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:252
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9781476668345

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James Arthur Anderson is a professor emeritus at Johnson & Wales University, where he taught writing, literature, and science fiction until his retirement in 2021. He has published book-length critical studies on H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, and received The Rocky Wood Memorial Scholarship for Nonfiction from the Horror Writers Association in 2016.

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“impressively informative, thought-provoking, and inherently fascinating...critically important...highly recommended”—Midwest Book Review; “employs concepts of modern literary theory to analyze the work of American horror writer Stephen King. Written from a scholarly perspective, the book is accessible to devoted fans”—ProtoView.

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Carrie: The Truth Within the Lie2. ’Salem’s Lot: The Word Gives Being3. “The Word Processor of the Gods”: The Writer Creates the World4. The Shining: The Sleep of Reason5. Pet Sematary: The Spoken Secret6. Misery: The Death of the Author7. The Dark Half: The Duplicity of Language8. “Secret Window, Secret Garden”: The Writer’s Secrets9. “The Body”: Portrait of the Artist10. “The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet” and “Dedication”: Nature, Nurture and the Writer’s Psyche11. The Running Man: Simulacra and Simulation12. IT: The Unnamable Horror13. Needful Things: The Linguistics of Brand Names14. The Green Mile: Remembrance of Things Past15. Bag of Bones: King’s Horror Matures16. Cell: The Metalinguistics of Technology17. Lisey’s Story: Private Language18. “Ur”: Textual Reality19. “1922” and “A Good Marriage”: The Secret Collection20. Joyland: Linguistic Registers21. Revival: Cosmic Horror22. End of Watch: To Be or Not to BeConclusionWorks CitedIndex