Authors: Claudio Hernández

Description: L'écrivain du Maine, comme beaucoup l'appellent, était prédestiné à devenir le meilleur écrivain d'horreur de l'Histoire. C'est ce que nous démontre sa carrière littéraire. En dépit des centaines de refus qu'il dut essuyer à l'époque de ses premières nouvelles et de ses premiers romans, le destin était écrit : le clou qui tenait les lettres de refus finit par tomber. Stephen King commença à écrire à l'âge de huit ans et il publierait ses premières nouvelles dès le début. Les enfants de l'école le lisaient. Parvenir à la publication de Carrie, l'ouvrage avec lequel sa carrière professionnelle débuta, n'eut rien de facile. Avant cela, il survivait à l'aide d'emplois nombreux et variés ainsi que les chèques qu'il recevait pour ses nouvelles. La mort et la peur furent toujours à ses côtés, depuis l'époque où il creusait des tombes dans le cimetière local à l'adolescence, son premier travail rémunéré. Sa ténacité et sa constance lui permirent d'être reconnu comme le « Roi », un hommage à son nom de famille « King », qui n'aurait pas pu mieux tomber. Dans cet ouvrage, vous découvrirez ses débuts : ses arrière-grands-parents, ses grands-parents, ses parents, la pauvreté, la caisse des manuscrits de son père, ses premiers contes, l'époque du lycée dont il ne souhaite pas se souvenir, l'université, ses premiers romans, son travail en tant que professeur d'anglais, son alter ego, ses problèmes... Et finalement, son succès de masse. Il s'agit d'une étude de la première étape, la plus pure, de Stephen King, celle qui nous marqua tous et qui ferait de lui le roi de l'horreur. Un jour, son doigt se posa au hasard sur une carte des États-Unis et atterrit dans le Colorado, sur l'hôtel Stanley. Et le destin suivit son cours. Vous devinez de quelle histoire il s'agit ?

Langue: fr

Publisher: Babelcube Inc.

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Philippe Hemsen

Description: Cet essai analyse la vie et l'oeuvre littéraire de Stephen King, auteur de best-sellers fantastiques.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Presses Univ. Septentrion

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Michael R. Collings

Description:

Langue: en

Publisher: Millefleurs

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Michael R. Collings

Description: In this revised and expanded edition of "The Stephen King Phenomenon," Dr. Michael R. Collings re-examines the impact of Stephen King on popular culture.

Langue: en

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Joseph Maddrey

Description: Stephen King's fiction has formed the basis of more motion picture adaptations than any other living author. Over half a century since his earliest publications, Hollywood filmmakers continue to reinvent, reimagine, remake, and reboot King's stories, with mixed results. This book, volume 1 in a series, examines the various screen adaptations of King's first three novels: Carrie, Salem's Lot, and The Shining. Reaching further than questions of fidelity to the author and adherence to directorial visions, it charts the development of each individual adaptation from first option to final cut. Through old and new interviews with the writers, producers, and directors of these films--as well as in-depth analyses of produced and unproduced screenplays--it illuminates the adaptation process as an intricately collaborative endeavor. Rather than merely synopsize the resulting stories, its goal is to compare, contrast, and contextualize each of these adaptations as the products of their creators.

Langue: en

Publisher: McFarland

Categories: Performing Arts

Authors: Leonard Wolf

Description: In Blood Thirst: One Hundred Years of Vampire Fiction, Leonard Wolf gathers thirty tales in which vampires of all varieties make their ghastly presence felt.

Langue: en

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Michael R. Collings

Description: A study of King's fiction, including a chapter on criticism and a chronology of King's works.

Langue: en

Publisher: Millefleurs

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Halbert W. Hall

Description:

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Fantasy fiction

Authors: J Gordon Melton

Description: The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, Ph.D. takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the bloodthirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.

Langue: en

Publisher: Visible Ink Press

Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit

Authors: Laurent Bourdier

Description: Retrace le parcours littéraire de Stephen King : la construction de l'écrivain (l'enfance, l'adolescence, l'engagement politique ...) ; le fantastiqueur du réel (la continuité de l'oeuvre, les thèmes récurrents ...) ; la valeur et la portée de l'oeuvre. Avec une bibliographie commentée et critique de ses oeuvres.

Langue: fr

Publisher:

Categories:

Authors: Stephen J. Spignesi

Description: Now fans, researchers, and collectors can have easy access to all things King with this definitive sourcebook. This one-of-a-kind encyclopedia, now in paperback, features an exhaustive 18,000-entry concordance covering the people, places, and things mentioned in King's novels and stories, as well as helpful reference guides, sidebars, and never-before-available information. 50 photographs. 20 line drawings.

Langue: en

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: James Van Hise

Description:

Langue: en

Publisher: Movie Publisher Services

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Alfred Hornung

Description: Some of the articles were presented at a conference which took place at the Pfalzakademie in Lambrecht in 1999.

Langue: en

Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: British Library

Description:

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Reference

Authors: James Richard Giles ,Wanda H. Giles

Description: pThis award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. IDictionary of Literary Biography /I provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history. p IDictionary of Literary Biography /I systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods. PFor a listing of IDictionary of Literary Biography /I volumes sorted by genre a href ="/pdf/facts/DBLvolbygenre.pdf"click here. /a

Langue: en

Publisher: Gale Research International, Limited

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Authors: George W. Beahm (ed)

Description: Not a reference book, but a pretty good fan book. Covers King's career, criticism, synopses, transcriptions to film and audio. Illustrated with pictures of King, covers, movie sets. Public libraries will need gobs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Langue: en

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Authors:

Description: La liste exhaustive des ouvrages disponibles publiés en langue française dans le monde. La liste des éditeurs et la liste des collections de langue française.

Langue: fr

Publisher:

Categories: Bibliography, National

Authors:

Description:

Langue: fr

Publisher:

Categories: Social sciences

Authors: Joseph Reino

Description: A critical examination of King's horror novels.

Langue: en

Publisher: Twayne Publishers

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: William Contento

Description:

Langue: en

Publisher: Boston : G.K. Hall, c1978-c1984

Categories: Reference