Provides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first century This groundbreaking collection captures the state of popular fiction in present day. It features 20 new essays on key authors associated with a wide range of genres and sub-genres, providing chapter-length discussions of major post-2000 works of contemporary popular fiction. The lively, accessible and academically rigorous essays presented here will primarily appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Key Features . Covers a wider range of established popular fiction genres such as…mehr
Bernice M. Murphy is Lecturer in Popular Literature in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, and Director of the TCD M.Phil in Popular Literature, which was established in 2005. She has published extensively on topics related to popular fiction and horror and gothic studies. Recent publications include the text book Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2017). Stephen Matterson is Professor of American Literature in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, and a Fellow of the College. He has published widely on US literature, with emphasis on 20th-century poetry and literature of the mid-19th century. In addition to a series of co-edited collections of essays, his book publications include American Literature: The Essential Glossary (Bloomsbury, 2003), and Melville: Fashioning in Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2015).
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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.
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.
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