Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field

ISBN-13: 9780415356473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 192 str.

Ken Gelder

Opis

In this important book, Ken Gelder offers an account of popular fiction as a distinctive literary and cultural field, tied directly to the logics and practices of entertainment and industry.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Defining the Field  1. Popular Fiction: The Opposite of Literature?  2. Genre: History, Attitudes, Practice  3. Processing Popular Fiction: Bookshops, Fans, Fanzines and Prozines, Organizations  Part 2: Five Popular Novelists  4. (Lo-tech) John Grisham and (Hi-tech) Michael Crichton: Putting the Thriller to Work  5. The Vampire Writes Back: Anne Rice and the (Re)Turn of the Author  6. Jackie Collins, Anti-Romance and the Celebrity Novel  7. J.R.R. Tolkien and Global Terrorism  Conclusion  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Ken Gelder is a Reader in English at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His books include Reading the Vampire (Routledge 1994) and, with Jane M. Jacobs, Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (Melbourne University Press, 1998). He is co-editor of The Subcultures Reader (1997) and editor of The Horror Reader (2000), both published by Routledge.