Clotilde Landais, Stephen King as a Postmodern Author
New York : Peter Lang, coll. "Modern American Literature : New Approaches", 2013.
EAN 9781433118227
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Présentation de l'éditeur :
Although studies on Stephen King (1947-) traditionally belong to the field of popular culture, some of his work, such as The Dark Half and "Secret Window, Secret Garden," give an insightful perspective on contemporary fiction. Drawing upon methods used in literary analysis and textual interpretation, this book proposes a new reading of Stephen King's fiction as a literary reflection on the artistic identity of the writer and on writing and shows that horrific descriptions do not necessarily exclude metafiction. Stephen King as a Postmodern Author aims to serve as an introduction to major theories influencing contemporary American literature, such as narratology, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and various theories of fiction.
About the author
Clotilde Landais is Visiting Assistant Professor at Purdue University. She received her PhD in comparative literature from the University of La Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris). Her research and teaching include North American fantastic fiction, the fictitious writer and his Doppelganger, and translation theories. She notably published articles in the Colloque de Cerisy series, @nalyses, and Philip Roth Studies.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Origins of Contemporary Fantastic Fiction
Fantastic Fiction: Obtuse versus Obvious
The Possibility of a Metafictional Obvious Fantastic Fiction
Chapter 2. The Fictitious Writer and His Doppelganger: A Relationship Shaped by Creative Schizophrenia
King's Fictitious Writers and Their Doppelganger
The Scriptural Identity of the Doppelganger
Creative Schizophrenia
Chapter 3. The Writing Doppelganger: The Question of Disguised Literary Identities
Pseudonym
Plagiarism
Stephen King's Fictitious Writers as Postmodern Characters
Chapter 4. The Writing Writer: Thinking the Creative Identity
Writing Splits
Literary References
The Erasure of the Boundaries between Reality and Fiction
Chapter 5. Conclusion