On November 19, 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded best-selling author Stephen King the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A number of scholarly elitists, including renowned critic Harold Bloom, vehemently condemned the National Book Foundation's decision to offer such a prestigious award to a popular fiction writer like King. I contest, however, that popular writing is not always unintelligent or inartistic and that King's writing is an example of popular fiction that also has literary value. My goal in this thesis is to examine some of the universal elements in King's works and perform an in-depth literary analysis of one of King's novels, The Shining, in order to demonstrate a sampling of qualities that make King's work worthy of literary recognition and examination.
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机译:2003年11月19日,美国国家图书基金会(National Book Foundation)向畅销书作家史蒂芬·金(Stephen King)授予了“美国信件杰出贡献奖”。包括著名评论家哈罗德·布鲁姆(Harold Bloom)在内的许多学术精英都强烈谴责国家图书基金会(National Book Foundation)决定向像金这样的受欢迎的小说作家提供如此享有盛誉的奖项。但是,我质疑通俗写作并不总是愚蠢或不明智的,金的著作是通俗小说的一个例子,它也具有文学价值。本论文的目的是研究国王作品中的一些普遍性,并对国王小说之一《光辉》进行深入的文学分析,以证明使国王的作品值得文学认可和品质的样本。检查。
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