188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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Offering an insightful examination of Stephen King’s fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freud’s theory of the uncanny. It demonstrates how entrenched King’s work is in a literary tradition influenced by psychoanalytic theory, as well as the ways that King evades and amends Freud. Such an approach positions King’s texts not simply as objects of interpretation that... Read more
Introduction: Thinking the Very Worst 1. Death and the Returning Dead 2. The Thing Without a Name 3. Second Sight 4. Still Lives 5. Special Children. Conclusion: Too Much Material of the Same Kind
Biography
Dr Erin Mercer is Senior Lecturer in English at Massey University. She is the author of Telling the Real Story (Victoria UP 2017) and Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature (Palgrave 2011). Her research has also appeared as book chapters and in journals such as Gothic Studies, The Journal of American Culture and The Journal of Popular Culture.
