Everyday Evil in Stephen King's America (eBook, PDF)

Essays, Images, Paratexts
Redaktion: Polley, Jason S.; Hamilton, Stephanie Laine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection variously interrogates how everyday evil manifests in Stephen King's now-familiar American imaginary; an imaginary that increases the representational limits of both anticipated and experienced realism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040039281
• Artikelnr.: 70263334

Autorenporträt

Jason S Polley is an associate professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University. He teaches modern fiction. He has articles on John Banville, District 9, Jane Smiley, Watchmen, Wong Kar-wai, House of Leaves, Bombay Fever, Joel Thomas Hynes, R. Crumb, critical pedagogy, and David Foster Wallace. He's co-editor of the essay volumes Poetry in Pedagogy (2021) and Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong (2018). Stephanie Laine Hamilton is a historian and freelance academic who has published on topics including ancient Roman performance culture, representations of sport in Plutarch, and the poetic practices of late antique cento and mid-20th century cut-ups. Hamilton also authored Booze and Bars: A Brief History of Pub Culture in the Crowsnest Pass (2016), which spawned her current PhD work on brewing history in North America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Shine On Part I: The Man King's America, America's King, Part 1: The Man. A Note on Paratexts 1. Thinner, the Auteur, and the Lived Macabre: Kindness in Bachman/King 2. Evil (and) Influence: Ritual in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and Stephen King's The Long Walk Part II: The Monster King's America, America's King, Part 2: The Monster. Werewolves as Paratextual 3. Why Think Evil? Evil Unbound in King's Misery 4. Conjuring the Dark Half: "Ghost-Writing" in Stephen King Part III: The Re-mediator King's America, America's King, Part 3: The Re-Mediator. Legacy and Paratext 5. Inside Evil, Outside Evil: Attachment Crisis & Occultism in Carrie, The Shining, and Doctor Sleep 6. Event/Eternal Recurrence: Evil in 11/22/63. Conclusion: The Weaponized Mundane: Nostalgia and Catharsis in the Work of Stephen King, Marshall Moore Appendices: A Note on Appendices Appendix A: "Why I Was Bachman" (1985). Appendix B: "The Importance of Being Bachman" (1996). Appendix C: "Full Disclosure" (2006), Stephen King Appendix D: The Bachman Covers