Tony Magistrale (Books)

Tony Magistrale Books

Tony Magistrale is a celebrated author whose creative output spans poetry and critical analysis. His verse delves deeply into themes of love and human connection, often employing evocative and intimate language. Beyond his own poetry, Magistrale is a leading scholar of Anglo-American Gothicism, tracing its historical trajectory and its manifestations in contemporary popular culture. His scholarly works illuminate the darker facets of the human psyche and the societal contexts that shape this enduring literary tradition.

Stephen King and American History

160 pages
6 hours of reading

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This book surveys the labyrinthine relationship between Stephen King and American History. By depicting American History as a doomed cycle of greed and violence, King poses a number of important who gets to make history, what gets left out, how one understands one's role within it, and how one might avoid repeating mistakes of the past. This volume examines King's relationship to American History through the illumination of metanarratives, adaptations, "queer" and alternative historical lenses, which confront the destructive patterns of our past as well as our capacity to imagine a different future. Stephen King and American History will present readers with an opportunity to place popular culture in conversation with the pressing issues of our day. If we hope to imagine a different path forward, we will need to come to terms with this enclosure―a task for which King's corpus is uniquely well-suited.