Revisiting Stephen King : a critical companion / / Sharon A. Russell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910809589903321
• Autore: Russell Sharon A. <1941->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2002
• ISBN: 979-82-16-00839-2; 1-280-87244-6; 9786610872442; 0-313-00676-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Collana: Critical companions to popular contemporary writers, , 1082-4979
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetti: Horror tales, American - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-166) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- REVISITING STEPHEN KING -- ADVISORY BOARD -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Life of Stephen King -- EARLY LIFE -- COLLEGE YEARS -- STRUGGLE AND FIRST SUCCESS -- THE SUCCESSFUL AUTHOR -- THE ACCIDENT -- FILMS -- KING'S STYLE AND THE FUTURE -- 2 Genre -- WHAT IS A GENRE? -- WHAT IS THE HORROR GENRE? -- KING'S VIEW OF THE WRITING PROCESS -- KING'S VIEW OF THE HORROR GENRE -- OTHER GENRES IN KING'S FICTION -- Suspense Fiction -- Science Fiction -- Fantasy -- Recent Works and Genre Fiction -- 3 Desperation and The Regulators (1996) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- Desperation -- The Regulators -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- David Carver -- Seth Garin -- Johnny Marinville -- Audrey Wyler -- Collie Entragian -- THEMES -- ALTERNATIVE READING: GENRE AND VARIATIONS ON A THEME -- 4 The Green Mile (1997) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- Part One: Two Dead Girls -- Part Two: The Mouse on the Mile -- Part Three: Coffey's Hands -- Part Four: The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix -- Part Five: Night Journey -- Part Six: Coffey on the Mile -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- John Coffey -- Paul Edgecombe -- Percy Wetmore and Brad Dolan -- THEME -- ALTERNATIVE READING: THE SERIAL FORM -- 5 Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- Roland -- Susan -- Eldred Jonas -- THEME -- ; ALTERNATIVE READING: READER RESPONSE THEORY -- 6 Bag of Bones (1998) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- Michael Noonan -- Johanna Noonan -- Mattie and Kyra Devore -- Max Devore -- Sara Tidwell -- THEMES -- ALTERNATIVE READING: MEN'S STUDIES -- 7 Hearts in Atlantis (1999) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- "Low Men in Yellow Coats" -- "Hearts in Atlantis" -- "Blind Willie" -- "Why We're in Vietnam" -- "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling" -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- Bobby Garfield -- Carol Gerber -- John Sullivan -- William Shearman -- THEME.; ALTERNATIVE READING: VIETNAM NARRATIVES -- 8 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- Patricia McFarland -- The Family -- Tom Gordon -- The Bear -- ALTERNATIVE READING: REGIONALISM -- 9 Dreamcatcher (2001) -- PLOT DEVELOPMENT -- CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT -- The Group -- The Military -- THEME -- ALTERNATIVE READING: TWO GENRES, HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION -- Bibliography -- WORKS BY STEPHEN KING -- Novels -- Stephen King Writing As Richard Bachman -- Collections -- Nonfiction -- Screenplays -- WORKS ABOUT STEPHEN KING -- General -- Biography -- Web Pages -- Bag of Bones -- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass -- Desperation and The Regulators -- Dreamcatcher -- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon -- The Green Mile -- Hearts in Atlantis -- OTHER BOOKS ON HORROR -- Index -- About the Author -- Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers.