TY - BOOK AU - Sears,John TI - Stephen King's gothicJohn Sears T2 - Gothic literary studies SN - 9780708323465 AV - PS3561 .S747 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Cardiff, Wales PB - University of Wales Press KW - King, Stephen, KW - Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American KW - History and criticism KW - Horror tales, American KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Rereading Stephen King's Gothic --; Carrie's Gothic script --; Disinterring, doubling: King and traditions --; Genre's Gothic machinery --; Misery's Gothic tropes --; Gothic time in 'The Langoliers' --; 'This Inhuman Place': King's Gothic places --; Facing Gothic monstrocity --; Conclusion: King's Gothic endings; 2; b N2 - "Stephen King's Gothic reassesses this major contemporary Gothic writer through close and detailed readings of key works ranging from his earliest writings (Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, the Shining) to such recent novels as Duma Kay. Informed by and extensively applying concepts deriving from contemporary literary and cultural theory, and engaging closely throughout with King's texts and with his comments in his own critical writings and interviews, John Sears argues that King's particular revisions of major Gothic themes, writings and traditions can best be understood as being closely related to his recurrent concerns with the act and products of writing itself. These concerns, Sears suggests, are detectable throughout King's oeuvre and are structural to his Gothic vision. Key themes addressed include Gothic traditions and their connections to such related genres as science fiction, Gothic representations of time, space, and place, Gothic monstrosity, and the constitution (in King's versions of it) of Gothic writing itself." --P 4. of cover UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=409319&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -