Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781474414845 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str.

Bernice Murphy; Stephen Matterson

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This groundbreaking collection provides students with a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fiction.

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Introduction: ‘Changing the story’: Popular Fiction oday, Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson; 1. Larry McMurtry’s Vanishing Breeds, Stephen Matterson; 2. ‘Time to Open the Door’: Stephen King’s Legacy, Rebecca Janicker; 3. Terry Pratchett: Mostly Human, Jim Shanahan; 4. From Westeros to HBO: George R.R. Martin and the Mainstreaming of Fantasy, Gerard Hynes; 5. Nora Roberts: The Power of Love, Jarlath Killeen; 6. The King of Stories: Neil Gaiman’s Twenty-first Century Fiction, Tara Prescott; 7. Jo Nesbø: Murder in the Folkhemmet, Clare Clarke; 8. ‘It’s a trap! Don’t turn the page.’ Metafiction and the Multiverse in the Comics of Grant Morrison, Kate Roddy; 9. Panoptic and Synoptic Surveillance in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games Series, Keith O’Sullivan; 10. E. L. James and the Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon, Dara Downey; 11. Fact, Fiction, Fabrication: The Popular Appeal of Dan Brown’s Global Bestsellers, Ian Kinane; 12. ‘I Need to Disillusion You’: J.K. Rowling and Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Fantasy, Kate Harvey; 13. Jodi Picoult: Good Grief, Clare Hayes-Brady; 14. ‘We Will Have a Happy Marriage If It Kills Him’: Gillian Flynn and the Rise of Domestic Noir, Bernice M. Murphy; 15. ‘The Bastard Zone’: China Miéville, Perdido Street Station and the New Weird, Kirsten Tranter; 16. Sparkly Vampires and Shimmering Aliens: The Paranormal Romance of Stephanie Meyer, Hannah Priest; 17. ‘We needed to get a lot of white collars dirty’: The Apocalypse as Opportunity in Max Brooks’ World War Z., Bernice M. Murphy; 18. Genre and Uncertainty in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad Mysteries, Brian Cliff; 19. ‘You Get What You Ask For’: Hugh Howey, SF, and Authorial Agency, Stephen Kenneally; 20. Cherie Priest: At the Intersection of History and Technology, Catherine Siemann.