Bibliograph

Stephen King, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Type

Label

Stephen King, edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Stephen King

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

38067682

Responsibility statement

edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Series statement

Modern critical views

Summary

A collection of critical essays discussing the work of the prolific horror writer Stephen King

Table Of Contents

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

Target audience

adolescent

Classification

Contributor