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Essay Topic 1

Consider Stephen King’s eminence in the literary culture of the United States in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Does the current novel contribute to or detract from that eminence? How so?

Essay Topic 2

Given that the novel is the third in a trilogy, what assumptions does it appear to make about readers being familiar with the earlier volumes in the trilogy? What in the novel indicates those assumptions? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

To what extent is biographical criticism—broadly, a reading strategy that attempts to interpret the novel through its correspondences with the figures and events in its authors’ lives—appropriate to apply to Gwendy’s Final Task? What in the novel and the authors’ backgrounds suggests as much, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 4

Similarly, to what other author are King and Chizmar indebted for the form...

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