Popular Fiction and Spatiality
Reading Genre Settings
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Beschreibung
This volume moves the debate about literature and geography in a new direction by showing the significance of spatial settings in the enormous and complex field of popular fiction. Approaching popular genres as complicated systems of meaning, the collected essays model key theoretical and critical approaches for interrogating the meaning of space and place across diverse genres, including crime, thrillers, fantasy, science fiction, and romance. Including topics such as classic English ghost stories, blockbuster Antarctic thrillers, prize-winning Montreal crime fiction, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, and China Miéville’s Bas-Lag, among others, this book brings together analyses of the real-and-imagined settings of some of the most widely read authors and texts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show how they have an immeasurable impact on our spatial awareness and imagination.
This volume moves the debate about literature and geography in a new direction by showing the significance of spatial settings in the enormous and complex field of popular fiction. Approaching popular genres as complicated systems of meaning, the collected essays model key theoretical and critical approaches for interrogating the meaning of space and place across diverse genres, including crime, thrillers, fantasy, science fiction, and romance. Including topics such as classic English ghost stories, blockbuster Antarctic thrillers, prize-winning Montreal crime fiction, J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, and China Miéville’s Bas-Lag, among others, this book brings together analyses of the real-and-imagined settings of some of the most widely read authors and texts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show how they have an immeasurable impact on our spatial awareness and imagination.
Offers a complex appraisal of the significance of popular fiction by discussing an impressive range of genres Provides much-needed depth and context to readings of a range of bestselling twentieth- and twenty-first-century authors and texts. Brings together the key concepts and concerns of literary spatial studies and popular fiction studies.
Autor*in
Lisa Fletcher
Themen in »Popular Fiction and Spatiality«
1 Geocriticism 2 Chronotope 3 Popular fiction 4 Popular genres 5 Genre studies 6 Eco-thriller cultural theory culture essay Europe fiction genre history of literature India literary theory