Teaching Stephen King

Horror, the Supernatural, and New Approaches to Literature

A. Burger (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

211 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-69469-3 (ISBN)

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Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom. The section on Real Life Horror includes chapters on King's school shooting novella Rage, sexual violence, and coming of age narratives.

Teaching Stephen King critically examines the works of Stephen King and several ways King can be incorporated into the high school and college classroom. The section on Variations on Horror Tropes includes chapters on the vampire, the werewolf, the undead monster, and the ghost. The section on Real Life Horror includes chapters on King's school shooting novella Rage, sexual violence, and coming of age narratives. Finally, the section on Playing with Publishing includes chapters on serial publishing and The Green Mile, e-books, and graphic novels.

Alissa Burger is Associate Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at State University of New York, Delhi, USA.

1. Why Teach King?
PART I: VARIATIONS ON CLASSIC HORROR TROPES
2. The Vampire
3. The Werewolf
4. The 'Thing with no Name'
5. The Ghost
PART II: REAL LIFE HORROR
6. Rage
7. Sexual Violence
8. Coming of Age Stories
PART III: PLAYING WITH PUBLISHING
9. Serial Publishing and The Green Mile
10. E-books
11. Graphic Novels
12. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	20.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	IX, 211 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
Schlagworte	coming of age/bildungsroman • E-Books • ghost • Gothic • Graphic Novels • Horror • King • Literature • Monster • Novel • Pedagogy • school • School shootings • serial publishing • Sexual Violence • Stephen • Vampire • Violence • werewolf
ISBN-10	1-349-69469-X / 134969469X
ISBN-13	978-1-349-69469-3 / 9781349694693
Zustand	Neuware