‘You Can Forget About Stephen King’

2018 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Michael Blyth
Keyword(s):  
Central Character ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
Horror Fiction

This chapter evaluates how the figure of Sutter Cane, the protagonist in John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness (1995), and his elevated celebrity persona, are very much a knowing homage to that other giant of horror fiction, Stephen King. To best understand how Sutter Cane is as much a product of King as he is of H.P. Lovecraft, it is worth noting that King himself is a graduate from the school of Lovecraft. Similar to the ways in which it makes reference to Lovecraft both on a surface and on a deeper textual level, In the Mouth of Madness also positions King as far more than a nominal surrogate for Cane. In addition to allusions to King's celebrity and popularity, perhaps more significantly it incorporates many themes central to King's fiction into its own narrative. Placing an author as a central character is one of King's signature tropes, and like many of King's writer-protagonists, Cane acts as a conduit for the ensuing horror.

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.

scholarly journals Portrayal of Horror in Stephen King's Revival

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4S4) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Keyword(s):  
Speculative Fiction ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Horror Fiction

Horror genre is defined as speculative fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers by including feelings of horror and terror. Stephen King is considered as one of the foremost writers of Horror fiction. H.P. Lovecraft is an American writer wrote many horror stories. He invented an pseudo-mythology known as the Cthulhu Mythos which focuses on a pantheon of Monstrous deities which inhabits worlds which are not our own. After Lovecraft, many writers tried to imitate his style. But only few got success. One such writer is Stephen King. He closely followed the style of Lovecraft and produced some of the best fictions in the genre of Horror.

The First Interlude: The Dark Corners

2016 ◽  
pp. 92-114
Author(s):  
Mike Ashley
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Development ◽  
Twilight Zone ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
Horror Fiction

Explores the reemergence of the horror fiction magazine following the success of writers like Stephen King and Dean Koontz, but now the emphasis was as much on the horrors of scientific development as they were the supernatural. As a consequence many of these magazines, notably TWILIGHT ZONE, NIGHT CRAY and THE HORROR SHOW were arguably as much sf magazines as horror. In the wake of cyberpunk the more extreme magazines created splatterpunk.

scholarly journals From One Master of Horror to Another: Tracing Poe’s Influence in Stephen King’s The Shining

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59
Author(s):  
Maroš Buday
Keyword(s):  
American History ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
Fiction Writers ◽  
Horror Fiction

Abstract This article deals with the work of two of the most prominent horror fiction writers in American history, namely Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King. The focus of this study is put on the comparative approach while tracing the influence of Poe’s several chosen narratives in King’s novel called The Shining (1977). The chosen approach has uncovered that King’s novel embodies numerous characteristics, tendencies, and other signs of inspiration by Poe’s narratives. The Shining encompasses Poe’s tales such as “The Masque of the Red Death”, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, and “The Black Cat” which are shown to be pivotal aspects of King’s novel. The analysis has shown that the aforementioned King’s novel exhibits Shakespearean elements intertwined with Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death”, the Overlook Hotel to be a composite consisting of various Poesque references, and that The Shining’s protagonist is a reflection of autobiographical references to specific aspects of the lives of Poe and King themselves.

scholarly journals Le métadiscours du fantastique ou comment écrire après la théorie du genre

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clotilde Landais
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
Harold Bloom ◽  
Nous Permet ◽  
Horror Fiction ◽  
Theoretical Thinking ◽  
American Authors

La littérature fantastique ne cesse de partager les spécialistes, créant une tradition de réflexion théorique dans laquelle les auteurs contemporains doivent trouver leur place. Nous nous intéressons dans cet article à deux auteurs nord-américains de fantastique horrifique qui ont inséré ces différents débats théoriques dans leur œuvre. L’étude des romans The Dark Half de Stephen King et Sur le seuil de Patrick Senécal nous permet de voir comment les métadiscours du fantastique et de l’écriture de l’horreur rappellent la pertinence des interrogations posées par Harold Bloom sur la gestion des influences littéraires et théoriques dans le processus créatif. Abstract Horror fiction has always divided scholars, creating a tradition of theoretical thinking in which contemporary authors have to find their place. In this paper, I will examine two horror novels by North American authors who inserted these different debates in their works. The study of Stephen King’s Dark Half and Patrick Senécal’s Sur le seuil will allow me to show how the metadiscourse of horror fiction and the metadiscourse of horror writing underline the accuracy of Harold Bloom’s questions on the management of literary and theoretical influences in the creative process.

Criss-Cross: Identity and Transformation in Re-reading Billy Elliot

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 536-551
Author(s):  
Jacqui Miller
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Opening Up

Billy Elliot (2000) has been widely recognised as an important British film of the post-Thatcher period. It has been analysed using multiple disciplinary methodologies, but almost always from the theoretical frameworks of class and gender/sexuality. The film has sometimes been used not so much as a focus of analysis itself but as a conduit for exploring issues such as class deprivation or neo-liberal politics and economics. Such studies tend to use the film's perceived shortcomings as a starting point to critique society's wider failings to interrogate constructions of gender and sexuality. This article argues that an examination of the identity formation of some of the film's subsidiary characters shows how fluidity and transformation are key to the film's opening up of a jouissance which is enabled by but goes beyond its central character.

ANALISIS STRUKTUR SOSIAL CERITA DALAM CERITA PENDEK ANAK “ANGGREK RARA” (SEBUAH KAJIAN SOSIOLOGI SASTRA TERHADAP SASTRA ANAK)

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 184
Author(s):  
Sari Herleni
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Central Character ◽  
The Real ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
The Social ◽  
Family Home

This article describes about the figure of children world in a short story “Anggrek Rara” written by Ina Inong, by connecting the social structure in the text and in the real life. After analyzing the social structure in the story, it is found that the plot of this story was the progressive plot, the background was from the social fact that came from inner house and outer house, otherwise the central character were Rara and Bunda. By analyzing social structure of text, it was found that a family (home) is the serious and formal environment while outer house is free and non formal. The result of the research showed that the children short story “ Anggrek Rara” was expected to give the figure outlines of the children world.AbstrakPenelitian ini membahas tentang gambaran dunia anak dalam cerita pendek anak “Anggrek Rara” karya Ina Inong dengan menghubungkan struktur sosial teks dalam karya dan struktur sosial teks dengan realitas. Melalui analisis struktur sosial dalam karya terungkap bahwa alur cerita ini merupakan alur lurus, latar terdiri dari fakta sosial yang bersumber dari rumah dan di luar rumah, sedangkan tokoh Rara dan Bunda adalah tokoh sentral. Melalui analisis struktur sosial teks dengan realitas terungkap bahwa keluarga (rumah) merupakan lingkungan yang sifatnya serius dan formal, sedangkan di luar rumah bahkan bersifat bebas dan non formal. Hasil yang diperoleh dari analisis ini menunjukkan bahwa cerita pendek anak “Anggrek Rara” dianggap mampu memberikan garis-garis besar gambaran kehidupan dunia anak.

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