Twenty-first-century popular fiction. ([2018])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Twenty-first-century popular fiction. ([2018])
- Main Title:
- Twenty-first-century popular fiction
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson.
- Editors:
- Murphy, Bernice M
Matterson, Stephen - Contents:
- Introduction: 'Changing the story', popular fiction today / Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson -- Larry McMurtry's vanishing breeds / Stephen Matterson -- 'Time to open the door': Stephen King's legacy / Rebecca Janicker -- Terry Pratchett: mostly human / Jim Shanahan -- From Westeros to HBO: George R.R. Martin and the mainstreaming of fantasy / Gerard Hynes -- Nora Roberts: the power of love / Jarlath Killeen -- The king of stories: Neil Gaiman's twenty-first century fiction / Tara Prescott -- Jo Nesbo: murder in the Folkhemmet / Clare Clarke -- 'It's a trap! Don't turn the page': metafiction and the multiverse in the comics of Grant Morrison / Kate Roddy -- Panoptic and synoptic surveillance in Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games series / Keith O'Sullivan -- E.L. James and the Fifty Shades phenomenon / Dara Downey -- Fact, fiction, fabrication: the popular appeal of Dan Brown's global bestsellers / Ian Kinane -- 'I need to disillusion you': J.K. Rowling and twenty-first century young adult fantasy / Kate Harvey -- Jodi Picoult: good grief / Clare Hayes-Brady -- 'We will have a happy marriage if it kills him": Gillian Flynn and the rise of domestic noir / Bernice M. Murphy -- 'The Bastard Zone': China Mieville, Perdido Street Station and the new weird / Kirsten Tranter -- Sparkly Vampires and shimmering aliens: the paranormal romance of Stephenie Meyer / Hannah Priest -- 'We needed to get a lot of white collars dirty': Apocalypse as opportunity in Max Brooks's World War Z /Introduction: 'Changing the story', popular fiction today / Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson -- Larry McMurtry's vanishing breeds / Stephen Matterson -- 'Time to open the door': Stephen King's legacy / Rebecca Janicker -- Terry Pratchett: mostly human / Jim Shanahan -- From Westeros to HBO: George R.R. Martin and the mainstreaming of fantasy / Gerard Hynes -- Nora Roberts: the power of love / Jarlath Killeen -- The king of stories: Neil Gaiman's twenty-first century fiction / Tara Prescott -- Jo Nesbo: murder in the Folkhemmet / Clare Clarke -- 'It's a trap! Don't turn the page': metafiction and the multiverse in the comics of Grant Morrison / Kate Roddy -- Panoptic and synoptic surveillance in Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games series / Keith O'Sullivan -- E.L. James and the Fifty Shades phenomenon / Dara Downey -- Fact, fiction, fabrication: the popular appeal of Dan Brown's global bestsellers / Ian Kinane -- 'I need to disillusion you': J.K. Rowling and twenty-first century young adult fantasy / Kate Harvey -- Jodi Picoult: good grief / Clare Hayes-Brady -- 'We will have a happy marriage if it kills him": Gillian Flynn and the rise of domestic noir / Bernice M. Murphy -- 'The Bastard Zone': China Mieville, Perdido Street Station and the new weird / Kirsten Tranter -- Sparkly Vampires and shimmering aliens: the paranormal romance of Stephenie Meyer / Hannah Priest -- 'We needed to get a lot of white collars dirty': Apocalypse as opportunity in Max Brooks's World War Z / Bernice M. Murphy -- Genre and uncertainty in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad mysteries / Brian Cliff -- 'You get what you ask for': Hugh Howey, science fiction and authorial agency / Stephen Kenneally -- Cherie Priest: at the intersection of history and technology / Catherine Siemann. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2018
- Copyright Date:
- 2018
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (iv, 250 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 810/820
English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Popular literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781474414869
1474414869 - Related ISBNs:
- 1474414850
9781474414852
9781474414845
1474414842
9781474414876
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.287569
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