King Noir ? The Crime Fiction of Stephen King
The Crime Fiction of Stephen King
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Product details:
- Publisher MP?MPP University Press of Mississippi
- Date of Publication 14 May 2025
- ISBN 9781496852748
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages278 pages
- Size 229x152x17 mm
- Weight 448 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 b&w illustrations 653
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Over the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success. Books on King explore his canon in religious contexts, in political and historical contexts, in mythic?specifically Jungian?contexts, in Gothic/horror (especially American literary) contexts, and in a wide variety of other contexts appropriate to a writer who, over the past half century, has become ""America?s Storyteller."" Beginning with a never-published chapter authored by Stephen King himself on the influence of the genre on his own writing, King Noir makes an invaluable contribution to King scholarship by placing King?s works in conversation with American crime fiction.
This is the third book that Tony Magistrale and Michael J. Blouin have coauthored on the work of Stephen King, and the first to consider King?s canon through the lens of crime fiction. King Noir examines not only King?s own efforts at writing in the detective genre, but also how the detective genre finds its way into work typically regarded as horror fiction.
In interviews, King has acknowledged his debt to earlier writers in the genre, such as Ed McBain and Raymond Chandler, and he much more often references hardboiled writers than he does horror writers. One could speculate that King became a writer because of his love of pulpy crime fiction, which he continues to hold in high esteem. From The Dead Zone to Mr. Mercedes, from the crime fiction of his pseudonym Richard Bachman to his most recent novel Holly, King returns obsessively to patterns established by American sleuths of every stripe, paying homage to them at the same time as he innovates on the formulas he has inherited. To focus upon a hardboiled Stephen King is to discover exciting new avenues for inquiry into one of America?s most enduring, and adaptable, storytellers.
