Critical Overview
Upon introducing Stephen King to an audience at Princeton in 1997, Joyce Carol Oates lauds King as a gothic storyteller with his "startling images and metaphors, which lingers long in the memory". Oates continues to praise King's New England saturated atmospheres as "a poetic evocation of that landscape, its history and its inhabitants". Oates mentions some of King's more gothic horror stories, most notable "The Reach", which she considers "elegantly composed".
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“Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)