Mary M. Talbot

Fictions at Work (eBook, ePUB)

Language and Social Practice in Fiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Mary Talbot shows how fiction works in the constitution and reproduction of social life. She does not reduce fiction to a functional support for ideology, however, but considers that the greatest interest in fiction is as a source of pleasure. She discusses both 'high' and 'low' fiction, combining discussion of social context with language analysis. Taking a view of fiction as a product of social practices, the book examines not only the texts themselves but also what people do with them and how they are valued. Fictions at work will be of interest to students on a variety of courses including linguistics, English, women's studies, cultural studies, and media and communication studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317896562
• Artikelnr.: 41692577

Autorenporträt

Mary M. Talbot

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Part I: Fiction as social practice
1. What is Fiction?
2. Discourses, readers, genres
3. Intertextuality and text population
Part II: Fiction and social reproduction
4. Escaping into romance
5. Confronting horror
Part III: Fiction and social change
6. Fiction and empowerment
7. Feminist science fiction
Notes
Bibliography
Index