Stephen King
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: Updated ed.
Series: Bloom's modern critical views
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780791093177
Subjects: King, Stephen, -- 1947- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Horror tales, American -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harold Bloom; title: King and the literary tradition of horror and the supernatural / Ben P. Indick; title: Stephen King : the good, the bad, and the academic / Don Herron; title: Stephen King : powers of horror / Clare Hanson; title: Tracing the gothic inheritance : Danse macabre / Tony Magistrale; title: "The face of Mr. Flip" : homophobia in the horror of Stephen King / Douglas Keesey; title: Some ways of reading The dead zone / Michael N. Stanton; title: The sin eater : orality, postliteracy, and the early Stephen King / Linda Badley; title: Needful things (1991) / Sharon A. Russell; title: The rape of the constant reader : Stephen King's construction of the female reader and violation of the female body in Misery / Kathleen Margaret Lant; title: Postmodern gothic : Stephen King's Pet sematary / Jesse W. Nash; title: Cars are girls : sexual power and sexual panic in Stephen King's Christine / Edward Madden; title: "Screaming while school was in session" : the construction of monstrosity in Stephen King's schoolhouse gothic / Sherry R. Truffin; title: Afterthought / Harold Bloom.