Stephen King Summary
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Stephen King - (1947 -) (Full name Stephen Edwin King; has written as Steve King, and under pseudonyms Richard Bachman, John Swithen, and Eleanor Druse) American novelist, short story writer, novella ... Read more

Gabriela Mistral, literary pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, was the first Spanish American author to receive the Nobel Prize in literature; as such, she will always be seen as a representative figu... Read more

Stephen King was born September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. Two years later, his father, a merchant seaman, went to the grocery store for a pa... Read more

Critical Essay by John Gault [The] arrival of a new Stephen King novel is something of an event: a minor event, perhaps, but still an event. And even when that novel is less than totally satisfying, ... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul Gray Those who have already rushed out to buy Different Seasons … may be a trifle shocked by what they have brought home: a collection of four novellas, only one of whic... Read more

In the following essay, Magistrale explores the role of children in King's work. On March 25, 1984, in Boca Raton, Florida, Stephen King delivered the closing address at the International Co... Read more

In the following essay, Casebeer traces influences from King's life that have affected his writing and delineates different stages and common elements in his fiction. Stephen King is the mos... Read more

In the following essay, Egan analyzes King's use of elements of the gothic and the melodramatic in his work. The Gothic tradition which has survived into the twentieth century, after passing... Read more

In the following essay, Egan discusses how the sacral parody common to gothic literature is at work in King's fiction. Leslie Fiedler's observation in Love and Death in the American N... Read more

Heldreth is an American educator and critic. In the following essay, he provides a thematic analysis of The Body, discussing King's treatment of maturation and use of narrative writing to �... Read more

Doty is an American educator and critic. In the following essay, he explores themes and narrative technique in "The Monkey. " In "The Monkey," Stephen King has used an ... Read more

In the following essay, Reino provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of the novellas comprising Different Seasons. With brief seasonal subtitles, Different Seasons (1982) attempts to bind toget... Read more

In the following essay, Cassuto finds parallels between “The Raft” and the slasher-film genre, and views the mysterious monster in the story as an embodiment of the vagina dentata. &#... Read more

In the following essay, Sanders relates King's story “The Monkey” to the film Forbidden Planet, in its psychic personification of the human id or subconscious. Considering how ... Read more

Who do you think is the best and most well known horror writer of today's world? If Stephen King does not come to mind then you must not be well educated on horror literature. King's early hardships... Read more

"Flex. The bureau rose into the air, trembled for a moment, and then rose until it nearly touched the ceiling. She lowered it. Lifted it. Lowered it. Now the bed, complete with her weight. Up. ... Read more