Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King - Murder, Sickness, and Plots

The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Plots examines the function of death in over thirty of King’s works to parse out the ways the Master of Horror plays with the idea of death and approaches it from multiple angles.

List of contents

Introduction: "Death is When the Monsters Get You"
Chapter One: "It's Not Really Her Anymore": Creating the Threat
Chapter Two: "You Know About the Cycle?": To Perpetuate the Monster
Chapter Three: "People Are Mortal": To Build Suspense
Chapter Four: "I Saved My Book By Blowing Approximately Half its Major Characters to Smithereens": To Narrow the Focus
Chapter Five: "Question: Death, Where is Thy Sting? Answer: Every-fucking-where": To Urge the Characters on to Action
Chapter Six: "More Than Any of us Probably Know, She Hurt": As Revenge
Chapter Seven: "What if He Has a Helper?": As Renfield
Chapter Eight: "I Want to Die Well": As Heroic Sacrifice
Chapter Nine: "It Could Destroy Everything": To Restore Order
Conclusion: "It Seemed to Mean Something": Confronting Death and Multifaceted Horror
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Rebecca Frost, PhD, is an independent scholar and co-chair for the Stephen King Area of the National Popular Culture Association Conference.

Summary

The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Plots examines the function of death in over thirty of King’s works to parse out the ways the Master of Horror plays with the idea of death and approaches it from multiple angles.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Frost
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781793646217
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-621-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Horror & Supernatural, Horror & ghost stories, Horror & supernatural fiction, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction