Popular fiction and spatiality : reading genre settings.
2016
PN770-PN779
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Title Popular fiction and spatiality : reading genre settings.
ISBN 9781137569028 (electronic book)
1137569026 (electronic book)
1137571411
9781137571410
Publication Details [Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Call Number PN770-PN779
Dewey Decimal Classification 809
Summary 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.
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Introduction: Space, Place and Popular Fiction, Lisa Fletcher
Cave Genres/Genre Caves: Reading the Subterranean Thriller, Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher
Unstable Places and Generic Spaces: Thrillers Set in Antarctica, Elizabeth Leane
Chronotopic Reading of Crime Fiction: Montréal in La Trace de l'Escargot, Marc Brosseau and Pierre-Mathieu Le Bel
Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930-1950: Mary Scott's Barbara Stories, Jane Stafford
The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love, William Gleason
Ghost-Al Erosion: Beaches and the Supernatural in Two Stories by M.R. James, Lucie Armitt
Pagan Places: Contemporary Paganism, British Fantasy Fiction, and the Case of Ryhope Wood, Kim Wilkins
Tolkien's Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings, Robert T. Tally Jr.
Commuting to Another World: Spaces of Transport and Transport Maps in Urban Fantasy, David Pike
Mapping Monstrosity: Metaphorical Geographies in China Miéville's Bas-Lag Trilogy, Robert A. Saunders
Air Force One: Popular (Non)Fiction in Flight, Christopher Schaberg
States of Nostalgia in the Genre of the Future: Panem, Globalization, and Utopia in The Hunger Games Trilogy, Eric D. Smith and Kylie Korsnack
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