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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Stephen King"”.

  1. The question of value: Reading Stephen King in a literary context

    Commons, WendyTexas Woman's University2006

    … Book Foundation awarded best-selling author Stephen King the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A number of scholarly elitists, including renowned critic Harold Bloom, vehemently condemned the National Book Foundation's decision to offer such a prestigious award to a …

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  2. The haunted house of memory in the fiction of Stephen King

    Napier, WillUniversity of Glasgow2008

    … a set of key issues and themes in the fiction of Stephen King, and then to present, in the form of a creative extract, a demonstration of an imaginative engagement with those same literary preoccupations mapped out in that opening critical section. This thesis is thus divided into two parts. The …

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  3. ‘Three types of terror.’ A critical study into how Stephen King elicits terror, horror and revulsion in the novel IT

    Morris, John2022

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  4. Imitation: A classical art for modern composition

    Uhlenkott, Linda Anne

    … community that stretches from Aristotle to Stephen King The arrangement of imitation in a taxonomy directs students through specific steps toward the goal of originality. This taxonomy employs textual models, such as the progymnasmata, and the living model, the writing teacher, writing. To …

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  5. Mental [In]Stability: Isolation and Hallucination in the Horror Genre

    Krafthefer, Catherine Marshall2016

    … "The Black Cat" and <em>The Shining</em> by Stephen King. Mental [in]stability is defined and then used to describe how the protagonist in these stories moves from a place of realism, to a world where they no longer understand their reality. This idea of mental [in]stability is also …

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  6. Funneling chaos: Interiority in the landscapes of dystopian fiction

    Sheppard, Mary Katherine2025

    … Divergent by Veronica Roth, and The Stand by Stephen King, this study examines how interiority is achieved through point of view, layered emotions, and desire and misbelief. This study not only highlights the role of interiority in dystopian fiction but also provides a framework for applying …

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  7. Gothic Representations: History, Literature, and Film

    Gould, Daniel2017

    … Gothic scene with special focus on the works of Stephen King, and explore how Gothic fiction underwent severe and radical changes over a short period of time from the end of World War II through the turn of the twenty-first century, stressing the timeless Gothic features, but also 2 divulging new …

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  8. An Integral Analysis of the Life and Works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937)

    Schultz, Samuel P 1989-University of Saskatchewan2019

    … change. As contemporary horror fiction writer Stephen King (1981/2010) suggests “we make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones” (13). Hence, the purpose of this thesis is to employ the theoretical and methodological insights of renowned sociologist Pitirim Aleksandrovič Sorokin …

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  9. 19th Century Gothic Inspiration: Investigating the Next Generation of Poes

    Horton, Alexandrea L.2016

    … published in 1925, “In the Vault,” and finally Stephen King’s short story published in 1972, “Suffer the Little Children.” An aspect of Poe’s writing that is also a familiar theme within 20<sup>th</sup> century gothic literature is violence. As J. Gerald Kennedy notes in his work, <em>A …

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