Stephen King /
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c1998.
- viii, 242 p. ; 25 cm.
- Modern critical views .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-231) and index.
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Cinderella's revenge : twists on fairy tale and mythic themes in the work of Stephen King / Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -- King and the literary tradition of horror and the supernatural / Ben P. Indick -- Surviving the ride / Clive Barker -- Reading between the lines : Stephen King and allegory / Bernard J. Gallagher -- Technohorror : the dystopian vision of Stephen King / James Egan -- Inherited haunts : Stephen King's terrible children / Anthony Magistrale -- The shape evil takes : Hawthorne's woods revisited / Anthony Magistrale -- Stephen King : powers of horror / Clare Hanson -- Stephen King and the tradition of American naturalism in The shining / Jeanne Campbell Reesman -- Stephen King's dark and terrible mother, Annie Wilkes / Katherine K. Gottschalk -- Childhood and rites of passage / Jonathan P. Davis -- Dialects of power : the two-faced narrative / Karen A. Hohne -- Stephen King viewing the body / Linda Badley -- Needful things / Sharon A. Russell -- The art of balance : Stephen King's canon / Edwin F. Casebeer.
A collection of critical essays discussing the work of the prolific horror writer Stephen King.
0791047806 (hc : alk. paper)
97049605 /AC
King, Stephen, 1947- --Criticism and interpretation.
Horror tales, American--History and criticism.
Horror tales--History and criticism--Juvenile literature.
PS3561.I483 / Z878 1998
813
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-231) and index.
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Cinderella's revenge : twists on fairy tale and mythic themes in the work of Stephen King / Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -- King and the literary tradition of horror and the supernatural / Ben P. Indick -- Surviving the ride / Clive Barker -- Reading between the lines : Stephen King and allegory / Bernard J. Gallagher -- Technohorror : the dystopian vision of Stephen King / James Egan -- Inherited haunts : Stephen King's terrible children / Anthony Magistrale -- The shape evil takes : Hawthorne's woods revisited / Anthony Magistrale -- Stephen King : powers of horror / Clare Hanson -- Stephen King and the tradition of American naturalism in The shining / Jeanne Campbell Reesman -- Stephen King's dark and terrible mother, Annie Wilkes / Katherine K. Gottschalk -- Childhood and rites of passage / Jonathan P. Davis -- Dialects of power : the two-faced narrative / Karen A. Hohne -- Stephen King viewing the body / Linda Badley -- Needful things / Sharon A. Russell -- The art of balance : Stephen King's canon / Edwin F. Casebeer.
A collection of critical essays discussing the work of the prolific horror writer Stephen King.
0791047806 (hc : alk. paper)
97049605 /AC
King, Stephen, 1947- --Criticism and interpretation.
Horror tales, American--History and criticism.
Horror tales--History and criticism--Juvenile literature.
PS3561.I483 / Z878 1998
813