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Popular Fiction and Spatiality: Reading Genre Settings
Hardcover
Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Literary CriticismAnthropology
ISBN13: 9781137571410
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 1 2016
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.11 Depth: 8.66
Language: English
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: Montréal 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 Miéville'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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