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Author | : Bernice M. Murphy |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474411061 |
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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 approaches, and the major genres and sub-genres within popular fiction. Because popular fiction is significantly shaped by commercial forces, the book also provides critical and historical contexts for terminology related to e-books, e-publishing, and self-publishing platforms. By using focusing in particular on post-2000 trends in popular fiction, the book provides a truly up-to-date snapshot of the subject area and its critical contexts.
Author | : Bernice M. Murphy |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-12-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474414869 |
Download Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This groundbreaking collection provides students with a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fiction.
Author | : Steve Padley |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
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ISBN | : 9781350363618 |
Download Key Concepts in Contemporary Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Key Concepts in Contemporary Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the literature and critical debates of the period since 1945. Setting texts in their historical, political and cultural contexts, it demonstrates how literature has dealt with and been shaped by the changing face of the modern world."--...
Author | : Steven Padley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2006-04-27 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : 023020421X |
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Key Concepts in Contemporary Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the literature and critical debates of the period since 1945. Setting texts in their historical, political and cultural contexts, it demonstrates how literature has dealt with and been shaped by the changing face of the modern world.
Author | : Beth Driscoll |
Publisher | : Page and Screen |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2022-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781625346612 |
Download Genre Worlds Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Works of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. This original book takes readers inside three popular genres of fiction, including crime, fantasy, and romance, to reveal how personal tastes, social connections, and industry knowledge shape genre worlds. Attuned to both the pleasure and the profession of producing genre fiction, the authors investigate contemporary developments in the field?the rise of Amazon, self-publishing platforms, transmedia storytelling, and growing global publishing conglomerates?and show how these interact with older practices, from fan conventions to writers? groups. Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, fan studies, and studies of the book and publishing cultures, Genre Worlds considers how contemporary genre fiction is produced and circulated on a global scale. Its authors propose an innovative theoretical framework that unfolds genre fiction?s most compelling characteristics: its connected social, industrial, and textual practices. As they demonstrate, genre fiction books are not merely texts; they are also nodes of social and industrial activity involving the production, dissemination, and reception of the texts.
Author | : Beauty Bragg |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2014-11-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0739188798 |
Download Reading Contemporary African American Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reading Contemporary African American Literature focuses on the subject of contemporary African American popular fiction by women. Bragg’s study addresses why such work should be the subject of scholarly examination, describes the events and attitudes which account for the critical neglect of this body of work, and models a critical approach to such narratives that demonstrates the distinctive ways in which this literature captures the complexities of post-civil rights era black experiences. In making her arguments regarding the value of popular writing, Bragg argues that black women’s popular fiction foregrounds gender in ways that are frequently missing from other modes of narrative production. They exhibit a responsiveness and timeliness to the shifting social terrain which is reflected in the rapidly shifting styles and themes which characterize popular fiction. In doing so, they extend the historical function of African American literature by continuing to engage the black body as a symbol of political meaning in the social context of the United States. In popular literature Beauty Bragg locates a space from which black women engage a variety of public discourses.
Author | : Nick Bentley |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2008-08-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748630376 |
Download Contemporary British Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This critical guide introduces major novelists and themes in British fiction from 1975 to 2005. It engages with concepts such as postmodernism, feminism, gender and the postcolonial, and examines the place of fiction within broader debates in contemporary culture.A comprehensive Introduction provides a historical context for the study of contemporary British fiction by detailing significant social, political and cultural events. This is followed by five chapters organised around the core themes: (1) Narrative Forms, (2) Contemporary Ethnicities, (3) Gender and Sexuality, (4) History, Memory and Writing, and (5) Narratives of Cultural Space.
Author | : Lisa Fletcher |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2016-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137569026 |
Download Popular Fiction and Spatiality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume moves the debate about literature and geography in a new direction by showing the significance of spatial settings in the enormous and complex field of popular fiction. Approaching popular genres as complicated systems of meaning, the collected essays model key theoretical and critical approaches for interrogating the meaning of space and place across diverse genres, including crime, thrillers, fantasy, science fiction, and romance. Including topics such as classic English ghost stories, blockbuster Antarctic thrillers, prize-winning Montreal crime fiction, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, and China Miéville’s Bas-Lag, among others, this book brings together analyses of the real-and-imagined settings of some of the most widely read authors and texts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show how they have an immeasurable impact on our spatial awareness and imagination.
Author | : David Glover |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521513375 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
Author | : William T. Vollmann |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 1997-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101523085 |
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Winner of the PEN Center USA West Award for Fiction – a collection of fifty-three interconnected stories by the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central Hailed by Newsday as "the most unconventional--and possibly the most exciting and imaginative--novelist at work today," William T. Vollmann has also established himself as an intrepid journalist willing to go to the hottest spots on the planet. Here he draws on these formidable talents to create a web of fifty-three interconnected tales, what he calls "a piecemeal atlas of the world I think in." Set in locales from Phnom Penh to Sarajevo, Mogadishu to New York, and provocatively combining autobiography with invention, fantasy with reportage, these stories examine poverty, violence, and loss even as they celebrate the beauty of landscape, the thrill of the alien, the infinitely precious pain of love. The Atlas brings to life a fascinating array of human beings: an old Inuit walrus-hunter, urban aborigines in Sydney, a crack-addicted prostitute, and even Vollmann himself.