Stephen King's Gothic by John Sears

Stephen King's Gothic by John Sears

Stephen King's Gothic explores the works of the world's best-selling horror writer through the lenses offered by contemporary literary and cultural theory. King's writing, it argues, explores many of the issues analysed by critics and philosophers, and offers ways of encountering and understanding some of our deepest fears about life and death.

'Sears offers an insightful and nuanced analysis of how King's narratives both speak to and work against major Gothic writings, traditions and themes such as repetition, doubling and allusion, secrecy and concealment, the writer and the text, uncanny features of time and place, resurrection and its hazards, degeneration, abjection and monstrosity. Sears has produced a sound critical examination of Stephen King's Gothic that is both thoroughly researched and highly readable. His study provides an opening for more serious and comprehensive critical examinations of King's work and suggests that King's fiction is best understood as part of an intricate intra- and inter-textual network. Sears' text is one of the few that offers an extended critical-theoretical engagement with King's writing, and it will be of interest to critics and fans of Gothic fiction alike.' Natasha Rebry - The Gothic Imagination

Dr John Sears is a senior lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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ISBN 13	9780708323458
ISBN 10	0708323456
Title	Stephen King's Gothic
Author	John Sears
Series	Gothic Literary Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Wales Press
Year published	2011-06-30
Number of pages	288
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