ABSTRACT
Bockting offers a stylistic analysis of King’s Balcony Stories, exploring spatial, temporal, biological, psychological, social, and racial liminalities in the text. Bockting’s examination of King’s use of the small-clause shows King as a modernist writer who resorts to this technique “to enter, without any judgment, into the raw, unmediated visions, feelings, beliefs, desires, fears, hopes and regrets of a character.” Bockting analyzes the linguistic structures that King uses to create her different threshold situations.
