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T1 Gothic literature and Stephen King: a contrastive analysis of The shining
A1 Asensio Izquierdo, Ana
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Stephen King
K1 Edgar Allan Poe
K1 Horror genre
K1 Gothic elements
K1 The Shining
K1 American literature
K1 Género de terror
K1 Elementos góticos
K1 El Resplandor
K1 Literatura americana
AB The bachelor thesis is concerned with the contrastive analysis of Stephen King’s The Shining and the main features of the Horror and Gothic Genre. Moreover, it also addresses if Edgar Allan Poe’s style of narrative had an important influence in the writing of this bestseller novel. In the theoretical part of the thesis, the biographies of Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe are included together with an introduction to the Horror Genre. The main part of the thesis centers its attention on the contrastive analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s adaptation of Gothic elements and both The Masque of the Red Death by E. A. Poe and Stephen King’s The Shining, providing a deeper analysis on the last best-seller writing.
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/25645
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/25645
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 16-ago-2024