ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Danse Macabre examines the various influences on King’s own writing, and important genre texts of the 19th and 20th centuries. Danse Macabre explores the history of the genre as far back as the Victorian era, but primarily focuses on the 1950s to the 1970s (roughly the era covering King’s own life).

Detailed explanation-2: -Kings unique way of writing with his old gothic ideals, new horror ideas, and use of realistic settings help to put a new spin on what we conceive as gothic story. King owes his success to his ability to take what he says are “real fears” (The Stephen King Story, 47) and turn them into a horror story.

Detailed explanation-3: -King favored an epistolary form to produce realism in the novel by using a combination of letters, news clippings, magazine articles, and passages from books. Stephen King also creates identifiable characters that elicit immediate sympathy from readers due to inherently flawed but human traits.

Detailed explanation-4: -Themes like these are found throughout King’s work. Loss of innocence, abuse, and the battle between good and evil are woven into his stories. He weaves these tales together, linking them to each other in a web that readers take great pleasure in discovering.