Twenty-first-century popular fiction /

Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction represents an invaluable starting point for students wishing to familiarise themselves with this exciting and rapidly evolving area of literary studies. It provides an accessible, concise and reliable overview of core critical terminology, key theoretical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Murphy, Bernice M. (Editor ), Matterson, Stephen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]
Temas:
2000-2099
English fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Popular literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Roman anglais > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Paralittérature > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
English fiction
Popular literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: 'Changing the story', popular fiction today / Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson
  • Larry McMurtry's vanishing breeds / Stephen Matterson
  • 'Time to open the door': Stephen King's legacy / Rebecca Janicker
  • Terry Pratchett: mostly human / Jim Shanahan
  • From Westeros to HBO: George R.R. Martin and the mainstreaming of fantasy / Gerard Hynes
  • Nora Roberts: the power of love / Jarlath Killeen
  • The king of stories: Neil Gaiman's twenty-first century fiction / Tara Prescott
  • Jo Nesbo: murder in the Folkhemmet / Clare Clarke
  • 'It's a trap! Don't turn the page': metafiction and the multiverse in the comics of Grant Morrison / Kate Roddy
  • Panoptic and synoptic surveillance in Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games series / Keith O'Sullivan
  • E.L. James and the Fifty Shades phenomenon / Dara Downey
  • Fact, fiction, fabrication: the popular appeal of Dan Brown's global bestsellers / Ian Kinane
  • 'I need to disillusion you': J.K. Rowling and twenty-first century young adult fantasy / Kate Harvey
  • Jodi Picoult: good grief / Clare Hayes-Brady
  • 'We will have a happy marriage if it kills him": Gillian Flynn and the rise of domestic noir / Bernice M. Murphy
  • 'The Bastard Zone': China Mieville, Perdido Street Station and the new weird / Kirsten Tranter
  • Sparkly Vampires and shimmering aliens: the paranormal romance of Stephenie Meyer / Hannah Priest
  • 'We needed to get a lot of white collars dirty': Apocalypse as opportunity in Max Brooks's World War Z / Bernice M. Murphy
  • Genre and uncertainty in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad mysteries / Brian Cliff
  • 'You get what you ask for': Hugh Howey, science fiction and authorial agency / Stephen Kenneally
  • Cherie Priest: at the intersection of history and technology / Catherine Siemann.

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