Authors: A. Burger

Description: Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom. The section on Variations on Horror Tropes includes chapters on the vampire, the werewolf, the undead monster, and the ghost. The section on Real Life Horror includes chapters on King's school shooting novella Rage, sexual violence, and coming of age narratives. Finally, the section on Playing with Publishing includes chapters on serial publishing and The Green Mile, e-books, and graphic novels.

Langue: en

Publisher: Springer

Categories: Education

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: Paul Simpson

Description: 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King’s first novel Carrie in April 1974. Rescued from the rubbish by his wife Tabitha, the novel launched the Maine schoolteacher on a prolific and extraordinarily successful career. His name has become synonymous with horror and suspense through over fifty works, including The Dark Tower, a retelling of Byron’s Childe Harold to the Dark Tower Came. Simpson traces the writer’s life from his difficult childhood – his father went out to the shops and never came back – through his initial books under the pseudonym Richard Bachman to the success of Carrie, Salem’s Lot and The Shining in the 1970s, and beyond. He examines how King’s writing was affected by the accident that nearly killed him in 1999 and how his battles with alcohol and addiction to medication have been reflected in his stories. The guide will also take a look at the very many adaptation’s of King’s work in movies, on television and radio, and in comic books.

Langue: en

Publisher: Hachette UK

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Michael R. Collings

Description:

Langue: en

Publisher: Millefleurs

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: David Schmid

Description: This timely collection provides a historical overview of violence in American popular culture from the Puritan era to the present and across a range of media. Few topics are discussed more broadly today than violence in American popular culture. Unfortunately, such discussion is often unsupported by fact and lacking in historical context. This two-volume work aims to remedy that through a series of concise, detailed essays that explore why violence has always been a fundamental part of American popular culture, the ways in which it has appeared, and how the nature and expression of interest in it have changed over time. Each volume of the collection is organized chronologically. The first focuses on violent events and phenomena in American history that have been treated across a range of popular cultural media. Topics include Native American genocide, slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and gender violence. The second volume explores the treatment of violence in popular culture as it relates to specific genres—for example, Puritan "execution sermons," dime novels, television, film, and video games. An afterword looks at the forces that influence how violence is presented, discusses what violence in pop culture tells us about American culture as a whole, and speculates about the future.

Langue: en

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Categories: Social Science

Authors: Kris Mohandie Ph.D. ABPP ,Brian Skoloff

Description: Some of the scariest and most interesting criminals are broken down and analyzed by Dr. Kris Mohandie, an expert police and forensic psychologist who has met—and evaluated—some of the most dangerous people who have walked among us. This book has numerous first-hand accounts of his work, and interviews for cases like the Angel of Death serial killer, racist serial assassin Joseph Paul Franklin, and even the O.J. Simpson case. Detailed case information, including excerpts of interviews he’s conducted with these offenders, provides a platform to learn shocking new information about hostage takers, serial killers, mass murderers, violent “true-believers,” terrorists, and some of the worst predators on the planet.

Langue: en

Publisher: Post Hill Press

Categories: True Crime

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: Roland Ernould

Description: Stephen King est né il y a plus d'un demi-siècle alors que paraissait le fameux rapport Kinsey, Le Comportement Sexuel de l'Homme. Ce gros ouvrage marquait le début du mouvement de libéralisation des mœurs, qui atteignit sa pleine expression dans les années soixante, quand King terminait ses années de lycée pour aller à l'université. Il a donc été le témoin privilégié de l'évolution sexuelle d'une époque. Son naturalisme littéraire lui a permis de décrire avec efficacité les multiples facettes de la sexualité des Américains de la Nouvelle Angleterre, de l'enfance à la vieillesse. Son goût pour l'horreur et le fantastique l'a mené dans des voies plus étranges. Son œuvre est ainsi une véritable anthologie du sexe, de sa découverte naïve jusqu'à l'horreur des conduites pathologiques ou les singularités des conduites fantastiques. Le jeune Stephen King a lui-même rencontré des difficiles problèmes personnels avec le sexe, qu'il n'a surmontés que lentement. Son œuvre n'est pas uniquement construite avec l'œil du sociologue. On y trouve aussi la trajectoire, passionnante à découvrir, d'un créateur qui écrit depuis l'enfance, et qui a choisi ses thèmes sexuels en fonction de son évolution personnelle.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Naturellement

Categories: 1947-

Authors: Stephen J. Spignesi

Description: This reference source on Stephen King's fiction provides details about characters, places and objects in each of King's novels and short stories and includes a biography section, interviews with family, friends and contemporaries, and sections on film adaptations and audio versions of his work.

Langue: en

Publisher: Popular Culture Ink

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Charles Edward May ,Frank Northen Magill

Description: Profiles more than four hundred authors of short fiction from around the world, presenting biographical and bibliographic information and summaries of major works. Also includes a reference volume with a chronology; a bibliography; lists of major award winners; twenty-nine essays on short-fiction history, theory, and world cultures; and three indexes.

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Tony Magistrale

Description: Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works -- A brief biography of the author -- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context -- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index -- A readable style presented in a manageable length

Langue: en

Publisher: New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Frank Northen Magill

Description:

Langue: en

Publisher:

Categories: Literature

Authors:

Description:

Langue: fr

Publisher:

Categories: Bibliography, National

Authors: James Van Hise

Description:

Langue: en

Publisher: Movie Publisher Services

Categories: Fiction

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: Valérie Tritter

Description:

Langue: fr

Publisher:

Categories: Fantastic literature xHistory and criticism

Authors:

Description: This is the only collection of every book, story, and ephemera published on and about Stephen King in the US and Internationally! Including: Books, Novels, Short-Fiction Collections, Non-Fiction, Etc. Including Reprints and multimedia adaptations of book titles. Short Fiction, Screenplays, Anthologies, Audio and Video adaptations, etc. This volumne, coming in at over 650 pages, also features many reproductions of novels from the US and Foreign editions. Over 100 cover and art reproductions. Thousands of listings that took Mr. Collings over fifteen years to collect. This is a one-of-a-kind volumne, and invaluable to any King reader, library, and collector to discover the many volumnes and listings of and about Stephen King.

Langue: en

Publisher: BIBLIO

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Claude Mesplède

Description: Dictionnaire des littératures policières à vocation encyclopédique proposant aussi bien des articles sur les thèmes caractéristiques du genre policier que sur les collections, les magazines, les auteurs (notices biobibliographiques), les personnages, etc.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Editions Joseph K

Categories: Detective and mystery stories

Authors: Sharon A. Russell

Description: Offers a critical introduction to the works of Stephen King, providing a brief biography and critical treatments of his eight most recent novels.

Langue: en

Publisher: Greenwood

Categories: Literary Criticism

Authors: Macmillan Publishing ,David Brownstone ,Irene Franck

Description: Presents clear, up-to-date biographical information on a wide selection of the most newsworthy people in the world.

Langue: en

Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company

Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction