Stephen King (Bloom’s Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom (PDF)

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Prolific author Stephen King published his first short story, “I Was a Teenage Grave Robber,” in Comics Review in 1965. Though often disparaged by literary critics, his work has influenced an entire generation of horror and science fiction writers, and he was awarded the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Featuring the most important critical interpretations of the horror master s work, Stephen King, Updated Edition is an ideal vehicle to jump-start research and further reading.

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Editorial Reviews: Review …”excellent critical guide sets edited by Harold Bloom…recommended picks for audiences of young adults studying literature.””A publishing venture almost without precedent both in its scope and in the fact that it is guided by a single critical intelligence.””Harold Bloom adds some fantastic critical literary guides, providing interpretations and issues that should reach a wide audience from adults to young adults at the high school and college levels.””The accounts offer students an opportunity to absorb serious analytical styles.””This collection of previously published essays, edited by the distinguished literary scholar Harold Bloom, is an excellent addition to the Wells critical canon.”

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I found Stephen King’s writing style very fascinating. He gets to the heart of fear, hurt and living with the consequences if not resolved. He makes life easier to accept the good and evil in everyday living.

⭐I am a Stephen King fan and a literature major. I bought this to do my senior thesis on King. I give this 4 stars because the critical essays are beautifully done to give you a rounded perspective. My overall rating is 1 star however because Harold Bloom is a pretentious dick who is a critic without being an artist. He is like the alcoholic uncle at family gatherings who tells you you’ve gained weight. The dude has no clue his own problems, yet he has no problem listing his personal percieved issues about other people.

⭐This is a collection of academic essays about the works of Stephen King. This is a subject that interests me, so I was hoping for more than what I got. The essays were either smugly academic, insufficiently rigorous, or unenlightening. Quite frequently, they were dreadfully dull. Some of the clever and eloquent insults in the Editor’s Note and Foreword were the high point of the entire exercise.The unenlightening were things that I already derived from his work, without the need for additional outside reading. The smugly academic were frequently dismissive and proud of their vocabulary that is useful only in the world of academia. (I have a pretty substantial vocabulary, but often encountered a word that seemed to carry a specific definition in the world of literary critique.)I had hoped for tougher rigor from this collection of academic essays. The one that really got my dander up, was the Misery essay. This one includes a monstrous logical fallacy that posits that since King has issues with extreme fans (like ones that break into your house) that he hates all his fans. It’s clear that the author of the essay holds both King and his readers in disdain, and is only too willing to accept poor logical leaps to write a negative screed.I cannot recommend this to anyone other than academics who want to feel smugly superior by reading “proper literature” while looking down on popular fiction.

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