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Dissertation
It Makes You Forget: A Re-Evaluation of Alcoholism in Stephen King’s The Shining
2025
Overview
Stephen King’s 1977 horror novel sold well and generated a film adaptation that is still discussed and critiqued to this day. However, that adaptation does two major injustices to the novel: it downplays Jack Torrance’s alcoholism, and the first point does not matter since it has managed almost complete replacement of the novel in terms of cultural memory.Contrary to popular belief, Jack Torrance’s alcoholism was not written as a conscious reflection of the author’s alcoholism. Where King aimed to write a new American Gothic novel, based on his ideas of authors like Edgar Allan Poe, denoted by its opening quote and references throughout. This thesis posits that instead he crafted a hotel that reflected all of his own fears, trauma, and shame into a narrative that captured the horror of the mid-century domestic violence and addiction while attempting to channel the otherworldly.
Publisher
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
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ISBN
9798288851285
