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The Shining Reader

Anthony Magistrale

First published 1991
Publisher Starmont House
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Stephen Fabian
Pages vii+220
Price $21.95
ISBN 1557421072

  • Date of publication from Amazon.com as of 2012-08-22.
  • Paperback ISBN: 1-55742-106-4.
  • Book is separated into three sections. Part One: The Shining as Text (p 3-78), Part Two: The Shining's Literary Tradition (p 79-179) and Part Three: The Shining as Film (p 180-216).
  • The "Introduction" is dated "January 1991".

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Once Out of Nature: The Topiary Michael N. Stanton Essay
11 Wendy Torrance, One of King's Women: A Typology of King's Female Characters Jackie L. Eller Essay
23 Jack's Nightmare at the Overlook: The American Dream Inverted Patricia Ferreira Essay
33 "The Masked Author Strikes Again": Writing and Dying in The Shining Mary Jane Dickerson Essay
47 The Collapse of Family and Language in Stephen King's The Shining Alan Cohen Essay
61 The Redrum of Time: A Meditation on Francisco Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Children" and Stephen King's The Shining Greg Weller Essay
81 Good and Evil in Stephen King's The Shining Burton Hatlen Essay
105 The Red Death's Sway: Setting and Character in Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" and King's The Shining Leonard Mustazza Essay
121 Stephen King and the Tradition of American Naturalism in The Shining Jeanne Campbell Reesman Essay
139 Canaries in a Gilded Cage: Mental and Marital Decline in McTeague and The Shining Brian Kent Essay
155 Shakespeare in 58 Chapters: The Shining as Classical Tragedy Tony Magistrale Essay
169 The Dark Side of Childhood: The 500 Hats of Bartholemew Cubbins and The Shining Vernon Hyles Essay
181 Kubrick's or King's—Whose Shining Is It? James F. Smith Essay
193 "Orders from the House": Kubrick's The Shining and Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" Mark J. Madigan Essay
203 Kubrick's The Shining: The Specters and the Critics James Hala Essay
217 Index (The Shining Reader) uncredited Essay
vii Introduction (The Shining Reader) Tony Magistrale Essay
xi About the Contributors (The Shining Reader) uncredited Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Shining Reader Cover 1991 Starmont House Trade Paperback Nonfiction 220