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Many readers know Stephen King for his early works of horror, from his fiction debut Carrie to his blockbuster novels The Shining, The Stand, and Misery, among others. While he continues to be a best-selling author, King's more recent fiction has not received the kind of critical attention that his books from the 1970s and 1980s enjoyed. Recent novels like Duma Key and 1/22/63 have been marginalized and, arguably, cast aside as anomalies within the author's extensive canon.
In Stephen King's Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror, Philip L. Simpson and Patrick McAleer present a collection of essays that analyze, assess, and critique King's post-1995 compositions. Purposefully side-stepping studies of earlier work, these essays are arranged into three main parts: the first section examines five King novels published between 2009 and 2013, offering genuinely fresh scholarship on King; the second part looks at the development of King's distinct brand of horror; the third section departs from probing the content of King's writing and instead focuses on King's process.
By concentrating on King's most recent writings, this collection offers provocative insights into the author's work, featuring essays on Dr. Sleep, Duma Key, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Joyland, Under the Dome, and others. As such, Stephen King's Contemporary Classics will appeal to general fans of the author's work as well as scholars of Stephen King and modern literature.
Contents
Introduction
Section I: Contemporary "Classics"
Chapter 1 "'Ordinary Miracles: Stephen King's Writing (and Painting) a 'Way Back to Life'
in Duma Key"
Hayley Mitchell Haugen
Chapter 2 "Narrative Structure in Under the Dome"
Jennifer Miller
Chapter 3 "'There's No Place Like Dome': An Assessment of the Adaptation of Stephen
King's Under the Dome into a Primetime Drama"
Tamara Watkins
Chapter 4 "Reading Joyland and Dr. Sleep as Complementary Stories"
Clotilde Landais
Section II: Modern Horrors
Chapter 5 "Failure Is Indeed an Option: Pride, Prophecy, and Roland Deschain's Perpetual
Quest for the Dark Tower"
Patrick McAleer
Chapter 6 "Trisha McFarland and the Tough Tootsie: Coping with Fear in The Girl Who
Loved Tom Gordon"
Matt Holman
Chapter 7 "'Morality': Stephen King's Most Disturbing Story?"
Philip L. Simpson
Chapter 8 "In Search for the Lost Object in a Bad Place: Stephen King's Contemporary
Gothic"
Alexandra Reuber
Chapter 9 "A Different Breed: Serial Killers in the Works of Stephen King"
Rebecca Frost
Section III: Stephen King and Writing
Chapter 10 "How to Draw a King: Duma Key, a Blues Aesthetic, and the American Artist"
Michael Perry
Chapter 11 "It Lurks Beneath the Fold: Stephen King, Adaptation, and the Pop-up Text of
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"
Carl H. Sederholm
Chapter 12 "Bachman's 'Found' Novels: The Regulators, Blaze, and Author Identity"
Kimberly Beal
Chapter 13 "King's Toolbox—for Writing and for Life?"
Mika Elovaara
Chapter 14 "The Blue Diamond"
Steph Post
Bibliography
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
