Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Murphy, Bernice M.; Matterson, Stephen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a unique snapshot of themes and trends within popular fiction in the twenty-first centuryThis groundbreaking collection captures the state of popular fiction in present day. It features twenty 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 cover a wider range of established popular fiction genres such as fantasy, horror and the romance, as well as more niche areas such as Domestic Noir, Steampunk, the New Weird, Nordic Noir and Zombie Lit. The collection will primarily appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students but general readers may also find the focus on many of today's most prominent and influential authors to be of interest.Key FeaturesProvides students with a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fictionIncludes timely reassessments of recent fiction by established figures such as Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, Larry McMurtry, Neil Gaiman, J.K. Rowling, Jodi Picoult, China Mieville, Grant Morrison, Terry Pratchett and Nora Roberts as well as consideration of authors who have emerged more recently, amongst them Stephenie Meyer, Gillian Flynn, E.L. James, Hugh Howey, Cherie Priest, and Max BrooksIncludes supplementary material such recommended further reading at the end of each chapter

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474414876
• Artikelnr.: 56320046

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.