Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction

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Titel: Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction

Enthält: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: ‘Changing the Story’ – Popular Fiction Today
Chapter 1 Larry McMurtry’s Vanishing Breeds
Chapter 2 ‘Time to Open the Door’: Stephen King’s Legacy
Chapter 3 Terry Pratchett: Mostly Human
Chapter 4 From Westeros to HBO: George R. R. Martin and the Mainstreaming of Fantasy
Chapter 5 Nora Roberts: The Power of Love
Chapter 6 The King of Stories: Neil Gaiman’s Twenty-First- Century Fiction
Chapter 7 Jo Nesbø: Murder in the Folkhemmet
Chapter 8 ‘It’s a Trap! Don’t Turn the Page’: Metafiction and the Multiverse in the Comics of Grant Morrison
Chapter 9 Panoptic and Synoptic Surveillance in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Series
Chapter 10 E. L. James and the Fifty Shades Phenomenon
Chapter 11 Fact, Fiction, Fabrication: The Popular Appeal of Dan Brown’s Global Bestsellers
Chapter 12 ‘I Need to Disillusion You’: J. K. Rowling and Twenty-First- Century Young Adult Fantasy
Chapter 13 Jodi Picoult: Good Grief
Chapter 14 ‘We Will Have a Happy Marriage If It Kills Him’: Gillian Flynn and the Rise of Domestic Noir
Chapter 15 ‘The Bastard Zone’: China Miéville, Perdido Street Station and the New Weird
Chapter 16 Sparkly Vampires and Shimmering Aliens: The Paranormal Romance of Stephenie Meyer
Chapter 17 ‘We Needed to Get a Lot of White Collars Dirty’: Apocalypse as Opportunity in Max Brooks’s World War Z
Chapter 18 Genre and Uncertainty in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad Mysteries
Chapter 19 ‘You Get What You Ask For’: Hugh Howey, Science Fiction and Authorial Agency
Chapter 20 Cherie Priest: At the Intersection of History and Technology
About the Contributors
Index

Beteiligte: Murphy, Bernice [Verfasser:in]; Clarke, Clare [Mitwirkende:r]; Cliff, Brian [Mitwirkende:r]; Downey, Dara [Mitwirkende:r]; Harvey, Kate [Mitwirkende:r]; Hayes-Brady, Clare [Mitwirkende:r]; Hynes, Gerard [Mitwirkende:r]; Janicker, Rebecca [Mitwirkende:r]; Kenneally, Stephen [Mitwirkende:r]; Killeen, Jarlath [Mitwirkende:r]; Kinane, Ian [Mitwirkende:r]; Matterson, Stephen [Verfasser:in]; Matterson, Stephen [Mitwirkende:r]; Murphy, Bernice M. [Mitwirkende:r]; O’Sullivan, Keith [Mitwirkende:r]; Prescott, Tara [Mitwirkende:r]; Priest, Hannah [Mitwirkende:r]; Roddy, Kate [Mitwirkende:r]; Shanahan, Jim [Mitwirkende:r]; Siemann, Catherine [Mitwirkende:r]; Tranter, Kirsten [Mitwirkende:r]

Erschienen: Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (256 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781474414869

ISBN: 9781474414869

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Schlagwörter: American literature 21st century History and criticism ; English fiction 21st century History and criticism ; Popular literature 21st century History and criticism ; Literary Studies ; LITERARY CRITICISM / General

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: Provides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first centuryThis groundbreaking collection captures the state of popular fiction in present day. It features twenty new essays on key authors associated with a wide range of genres and sub-genres, providing chapter-length discussions of major post-2000 works of contemporary popular fiction. The lively, accessible and academically rigorous essays presented here cover a wider range of established popular fiction genres such as fantasy, horror and the romance, as well as more niche areas such as Domestic Noir, Steampunk, the New Weird, Nordic Noir and Zombie Lit. The collection will primarily appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students but general readers may also find the focus on many of today’s most prominent and influential authors to be of interest.Key FeaturesProvides students with a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fictionIncludes timely reassessments of recent fiction by established figures such as Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Larry McMurtry, Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, Jodi Picoult, China Miéville, Grant Morrison, Terry Pratchett and Nora Roberts as well as consideration of authors who have emerged more recently, amongst them Stephenie Meyer, Gillian Flynn, E.L. James, Hugh Howey, Cherie Priest, and Max BrooksIncludes supplementary material such recommended further reading at the end of each chapter

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