King, Stephen (1947 -) | Pet Sematary
Pet Sematary
JESSE W. NASH (ESSAY DATE SPRING 1997)
SOURCE: Nash, Jesse W. "Postmodern Gothic: Stephen King's Pet Sematary." Journal of Popular Culture 30, no. 4 (spring 1997): 151-60.
In the following essay, Nash examines the influence of the popular culture representation of sensational literature and the Gothic tradition on King's works, arguing that these influences led King to create a "postmodern Gothic."
Although sympathetic critics have given it an impressive literary lineage, Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary has resisted easy categorization. Mary Ferguson Pharr detects the influence of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but she notes that King's work is the least self-conscious of many such variations (120). Tony Magistrale, in "Stephen King's Pet Sematary: Hawthorne's Woods Revisited" and in his book Landscape of Fear: Stephen King's American Gothic,...
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