Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367500696 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 204 str.

Ben Carver; Dana Cracian; Todor Hristov

Opis

This edited collection contributes to the study of conspiracy culture by analysing the relationship of literary forms to the formation, reception, and transformation of conspiracy theories.

Spis treści

Opening Considerations  1. Introduction  2. ‘Turning Points’: Plots and Conspiracy in Literature  Section 1. Conspiracy Theories about Books and Authors  3. Erich Auerbach’s Conspiracy Theory  4. In Pursuit of Nationhood vis-à-vis Russia: The Search for Lost Manuscripts in Post-Soviet Countries  5. Conspiracy Reading: New Literary Perspectives on Paranoia in Thomas Pynchon  Section 2. Plotting: Narrative Forms of Conspiracy  6. ‘The Cash Nexus’: Realism and Conspiracy in Balzac and Dickens  7. Conspiracy Narratives in Serialized Comics: An Exploration  8. Conspiracy Narratives and American Apocalypticism in The Turner Diaries  Section 3. Fictional Disclosures: Conspiracy and the Politics of Truth  9. Suspicious Fictions: Fictionalising Acts in a Conspiracy Novel  10. Half-Truths: On an Instrument of Post-Truth Politics (and Conspiracy Narratives)  11. Men Make Their Own History: Conspiracy as Counter-narrative in the German Political Field