RE-READING STEPHEN KING’S CARRIE: RECLAIMING THE VISUALIZATION OF THE ANGRY GIRL

[WARNING! SPOILERS ABOUT STEPHEN KING’S NOVEL CARRIE]           Like many other people, I saw Brian de Palma’s very popular 1976 film Carrie (scripted by Larry D. Cohen) before reading King’s 1974 novel. The question I’m exploring these days with my students is how and why the visualization contributed by audiovisual adaptation through production design, casting, […]

READING WRITERS’ BIOGRAPHIES: THE ELUSIVE ESSENCE OF THE IMAGINATION

I am currently reading Ruth Franklin’s 2016 biography of American author Shirley Jackson, subtitled A Rather Haunted Life, and I’ve come across a couple of passages in Chapter One (“Foundations: California 1916-1933”) I would like to comment on. Franklin informs us that Samuel C. Bugbee, “San Francisco’s first architect and Jackson’s great-great-grandfather” built in the […]

LAS BIOGRAFÍAS DE ESCRITORES Y LA ESENCIA ESQUIVA DE LA IMAGINACIÓN

Estoy leyendo la biografía que Ruth Franklin publicó de la autora estadounidense Shirley Jackson, subtitulada A Rather Haunted Life (2016), y me he encontrado con un par de pasajes en el Capítulo Uno (“Foundations: California 1916-1933”) que me gustaría comentar. Franklin informa que Samuel C. Bugbee, “el primer arquitecto de San Francisco y tatarabuelo de […]