scholarly journals KEHIDUPAN SOSIAL TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL CARRIE KARYA STEPHEN KING

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-84
Author(s):  
Zia Ulfah Faujiah ◽  
Fenty Sukmawati ◽  
Saprudin Saprudin
Keyword(s):  
Stephen King

Judul yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Kehidupan Sosial Tokoh Utama dalam Novel Carrie karya stephen King. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kehidupan sosial tokoh utama dan dampak kehidupan sosial terhadap tokoh utama yang digambarkan dalam novel tersebut. Metode yang dilakukan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif analisis. Pendekatan yang dilakukan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan sosiologi karya sastra. Hasil data dalam novel menunjukkan bahwa kehidupan sosial tokoh utama di pengaruhi oleh lingkungan sosialnya yang berdampak buruk bagi tokoh utama yang menjadikan dirinya sebagai orang yang pendiam, penentang, pendendam, pemberontak dan pembunuh.

A Critical Study of Stephen King and Horror Fiction

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Dr. Sudhir V. Nikam ◽  
Mr. Rajkiran J. Biraje
Keyword(s):  
Research Problem ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Serial Killers ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
Horror Fiction ◽  
A Site

This present research undertakes the extensive study of horror fiction genre with reference to the select novels of one of the finest and celebrated horror fiction writers of all time, Stephen King. This paper is a substantial assessment of the select horror fiction of King. The research problem revolves extensively around the word fear. Stephen King has conjured up the images of most horrific creatures, monsters, places, and stories, and some of the most enduring villains in fiction. These unimaginable evil beings test the limits of the protagonist. Some of these villains have gone to the extent of becoming as famous (or infamous) as the writer himself. Many of Stephen King villains are monsters of the human variety such as serial killers, power hungry despots, nihilists, etc. His most memorable and monumental characters are the supernatural ones who use their dark powers to twist the orderly world around them into a special place of chaos and pain. It has been assumed that the horror elements in the fiction of Stephen King are the result of his strategic use of supernaturalist and non-supernaturalist elements. The techniques that he uses to evoke horror in reader have been treated as a site for research attention by the researcher.

Stephen King as a Postmodern Author

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clotilde Landais
Keyword(s):  
Stephen King

The Binding of Isaac in J.R.R. Tolkien and Stephen King

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-174
Author(s):  
Sebastian Selvén
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Text ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Genesis 22 ◽  
Intertextual Dialogue

Abstract This article investigates biblical reception in the works of two popular modern fantasy authors. It stages an intertextual dialogue between Genesis 22:1-19, “the binding of Isaac”, and two episodes, in Stephen King’s The Gunslinger and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Return of the King. After presenting the dynamics of what happens to the biblical text in these two authors and the perspectives that come out, a hermeneutical reversal is then suggested, in which the modern stories are used to probe the biblical text. One can return to the Bible with questions culled from its later reception, in this case King and Tolkien. This article argues that the themes touched upon by the two authors are important and hermeneutically relevant ones, sometimes novel and sometimes contributions to exegetical debates that have been going on for centuries.

The Dream of the Wise Child: Freud's ‘Family Romance’ Revisited in Contemporary Narratives of Horror

Prospects ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 293-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Middle Aged ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
Family Romance ◽  
Romance Fiction

On the Phil Donahue show in early December 1981, Janet Dailey, the most successful romance writer in America today, explained, in answer to a question, why actual parents are usually absent in romance fiction. The form is short, it places a premium on excitement – and parents are not “interesting.” For a moment, Ms. Dailey almost lost her largely middle-aged audience. No one present thought to remind Janet Dailey that a contemporary genre of popular “thrillers” (which, by definition, aim to excite the reader) centers on parenthood. “Thriller” authors include Ira Levin, Peter Blatty, Stephen King, Lawrence Sanders, Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, V. C. Andrews, John Saul, and hundreds of lesser-known and -talented figures. It is logical, in fact, that no one mentioned in Dailey's presence what I call “family horror.” Romances and family thrillers are widely dissimilar, yet closely connected; the proverbial opposite sides of the same coin.

‘It’ before It: Stephen King and the abhuman from Carrie to The Shining

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl H. Sederholm
Keyword(s):  
Ordinary People ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
The Real ◽  
Complex Transformation

Although Stephen King’s most famous use of the pronoun ‘It’ comes from his 1986 novel It, he nevertheless uses ‘It’ in highly distinctive ways well before then. These uses of ‘It’ before It need to be discussed because they signify a complex transformation of human characters into monstrous creatures. Focusing on texts ranging from Carrie to The Shining, this article explores how King developed these distinctive ‘Its’ from a somewhat vague sense of unease or twisted desires into complex signifiers of the ways human characteristics can transform into monstrous actions. But King’s focus is never solely on the spectacle or the general horror of this transformation from human to monster. Instead, he explores the unsettling problem of the ways even the most positive human desires and actions can turn characters into ‘It’ creatures. Thus, the real tragedy of becoming an ‘It’, this article argues, comes from recognizing that these ‘It’ creatures are never just simple variations on a monstrous theme; instead, they represent the ways ordinary people can become monstrous as they lose themselves to their own alluring, but ultimately empty, actions.

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