Tony Magistrale: King Noir, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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"Over the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success. Books on King explore his canon in religious contexts, in political and historical contexts, in mythic--specifically Jungian-contexts--in Gothic / horror (especially American literary) contexts, and in a wide variety of other contexts appropriate to a writer who, over the past half century, has become 'America's Storyteller.' Beginning with a never-published chapter authored by Stephen King himself on the influence of the genre on his own writing, King Noir [contributes] to King scholarship by placing King's works in conversation with American crime fiction"--