Popular fiction and spatiality : reading genre settings
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Popular fiction and spatiality : reading genre settings
(Geocriticism and spatial literary studies)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2016
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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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