Stephen King and the Uncanny Imaginary
$89.23
- Paperback
178 pages
- Release Date
18 December 2024
Summary
The Uncanny King: Exploring Stephen King’s Psychoanalytic Terrors
Offering an insightful examination of Stephen King’s fiction, this book utilizes 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 might yield latent mean…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032185897 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1032185899 |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature |
| Author: | Erin Mercer |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 178 |
| Release Date: | 18 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 453g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Erin Mercer
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.
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