English Final
Postmodern Literature
Postmodern literature represents a break from 19th century realism, in which a story was told from an objective or omniscient point of view. In character development, postmodern literature explores subjectivism, turning from reality to examine inner states of consciousness. In addition, postmodern literature explores fragmentariness in narrative- and character-construction
Stephen King
http://www.stephenking.com/the_author.html
Stephen King is a great example of a Postmodernist. His books are both thrilling and suspensful. His works represent postmodern literature because they they go in and out of reality.
Salem's Lot
Salem's Lot horror fiction novel written by the author Stephen King in 1975. It was his second novel to be published. The story is about a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town where he was born, Salem's Lot, in Maine, New England, to discover that the people living there are all becoming vampires. The title King originally chose for the book was Second Coming, but he changed it to Jerusalem's Lot. King's publishers then shortened it to the current title, thinking the King's choice sounded too religious.
Themes/Techniques
Irony, black humor, and the general concept of “play” are the most recognizable characteristics of postmodern literature.The focus in the study of postmodern literature is on intertextuality: the relationship between one text and another. Attributes in postmodern literature are author is a character, blurs reality and fiction, comments on its own bookishness, plays with language, and disrupts/plays with form. Stephen King's most notible technique is bluring reality and fiction in his books.