Ken Gelder

Popular Fiction

The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 163mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780415356466
• ISBN-10: 0415356466
• Artikelnr.: 21074948

Autorenporträt

University of Melbourne, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

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