Halszka Lelen

H. G. Wells: The Literary Traveller in His Fantastic Short Story Machine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book offers a thorough study of the literary tensions and two-world structure of the fantastic short stories by H. G. Wells (1866-1946). It exposes trickster games in the storytelling and pinpoints Wells's staple methods of artistic composition - the mounting of various literary tensions built upon the body of traditional, dexterously combined genre elements and innovative topoi.

Produktdetails

• Mediated Fictions 10
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 265372
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 26mm x 148mm x 210mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9783631653722
• ISBN-10: 3631653727
• Artikelnr.: 44463418

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Fantastic short story and literary tensions - H. G. Wells - Literary experiment - Artistic patterns and multiple genre impact - Parody - Polyvalent fantastic worlds - Spatial motifs - Topoi of science and quest - Bakhtin's heteroglossia - Transposition of utopia into dystopia - Inconsequence, instability and trickster strategies.

Rezensionen

H. G. Wells: The Literary Traveller in His Fantastic Short Story Machine by Halszka Lelen is a well-researched and original volume that will be of interest to both Wells specialists and all scholars and students working in literary and cultural studies. Anyone who thinks - as the traditional literary historians did - that H. G. Wells was a minor novelist, a journalist and technological visionary rather than an artist will find this study thought-provoking and inspiring. (Barbara Klonowska, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)
The book is a conscientious scrutiny of H. G. Wells's twenty-five short stories presenting a doubled chronotope and so rightfully recognised by Lelen as fantastic fiction. The greatest asset of the monograph is focusing on Wells's intricate use of distinct genre conventions - those of the fairy tale, folk ballad, chivalric romance, detective fiction, dystopia and others - often bound together in particular texts. (Andrzej Zgorzelski, ProfessorEmeritus University of Gdansk)