Stephen King: America's Storyteller
Tony Magistrale
Language: English
Pages: 181
ISBN: 0313352283
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This analysis of the work of Stephen King explores the distinctly American fears and foibles that King has celebrated, condemned, and generally examined in the course of his wildly successful career.
• Presents separate chapters on major works of Stephen King, including The Shining, The Stand, It, Dolores Claiborne, and The Dark Tower
• Includes a chronology of Stephen King's life and 40-year career
• Offers a concluding interview with Stephen King
Lure his estranged wife to the hotel, to the room’s extensive efforts to juxtapose the suicides of former guests with Mike’s own self-imposed decision to isolate himself from his wife and the memory of his daughter. Within the confines of this solipsistic closed circuit, Mike is forced to confront the past life he has repressed. The room undergoes radical changes in its structure, transforming itself into the ocean, a frozen waste land, and finally a charred shell; the altering physical shapes of.
Lot. King provides his readership with a somber announcement of the boy-man about to enter the “real world.” Like so many American college graduates in 1970, King emerged less the optimist than the jaded cynic, less the patriot than the subversive skeptic. He wrote that his political views were “Extremely radical, largely due to the fact that nobody seems to listen to you unless you threaten to shut them down, turn them off, or make some 8 Stephen King kind of trouble.” He announced that he.
Calla, remains a faceless entity that symbolizes the disastrous consequences of unregulated corporate “progress” and an amoral reliance on computers and robotic life forms. This is also another way that The Dark Tower intersects with Gothic science; the abuse and misuse of cyborg robotics is an issue that ties King’s saga to dystopic texts confronting the same issue, such as Frankenstein, Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and The Matrix. Although King does not develop it sufficiently,.
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