Popular fiction and spatiality : reading genre settings

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    • Fletcher, Lisa

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Popular fiction and spatiality : reading genre settings

Lisa Fletcher, editor

(Geocriticism and spatial literary studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, c2016

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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 Mieville'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.

目次

CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Space, Place and Popular Fiction Lisa Fletcher Chapter 1: Cave Genres/Genre Caves: Reading the Subterranean Thriller Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher Chapter 2: Unstable Places and Generic Spaces: Thrillers Set in Antarctica Elizabeth Leane Chapter 3: Chronotopic Reading of Crime Fiction: Montreal in La Trace de l'Escargot Marc Brosseau and Pierre-Mathieu Le Bel Chapter 4: Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930-1950: Mary Scott's Barbara Stories Jane Stafford Chapter 5: The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love William Gleason Chapter 6: Ghost-Al Erosion: Beaches and the Supernatural in Two Stories by M. R. James Lucie Armitt Chapter 7: Pagan Places: Contemporary Paganism, British Fantasy Fiction, and the Case of Ryhope Wood Kim Wilkins Chapter 8: Tolkien's Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings Robert T. Tally Jr. Chapter 9: Commuting to Another World: Spaces of Transport and Transport Maps in Urban Fantasy David Pike Chapter 10: Mapping Monstrosity: Metaphorical Geographies in China Mieville's Bas-Lag Trilogy Robert A. Saunders Chapter 11: Air Force One: Popular (Non)Fiction in Flight Christopher Schaberg Chapter 12: States of Nostalgia in the Genre of the Future: Panem, Globalization, and Utopia in The Hunger Games Trilogy Eric D. Smith and Kylie Korsnack Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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