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245 1 0 _aTwenty-first-century popular fiction /edited by Bernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson.
260 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c(c)2018.
300 _a1 online resource (iv, 250 pages) :
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520 8 _aKey Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction represents an invaluable starting point for students wishing to familiarise themselves with this exciting and rapidly evolving area of literary studies. It provides an accessible, concise and reliable overview of core critical terminology, key theoretical approaches, and the major genres and sub-genres within popular fiction. Because popular fiction is significantly shaped by commercial forces, the book also provides critical and historical contexts for terminology related to e-books, e-publishing, and self-publishing platforms. By using focusing in particular on post-2000 trends in popular fiction, the book provides a truly up-to-date snapshot of the subject area and its critical contexts.
520 0 _a"This groundbreaking collection captures the state of present day popular fiction. 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."--book cover
505 0 0 _aIntroduction: 'Changing the story', popular fiction today /
_rBernice M. Murphy and Stephen Matterson --
_tLarry McMurtry's vanishing breeds /
_rStephen Matterson --
_t'Time to open the door': Stephen King's legacy /
_rRebecca Janicker --
_tTerry Pratchett: mostly human /
_rJim Shanahan --
_tFrom Westeros to HBO: George R.R. Martin and the mainstreaming of fantasy /
_rGerard Hynes --
_tNora Roberts: the power of love /
_rJarlath Killeen --
_tThe king of stories: Neil Gaiman's twenty-first century fiction /
_rTara Prescott --
_tJo Nesbo: murder in the Folkhemmet /
_rClare Clarke --
_t'It's a trap! Don't turn the page': metafiction and the multiverse in the comics of Grant Morrison /
_rKate Roddy --
_tPanoptic and synoptic surveillance in Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games series /
_rKeith O'Sullivan --
_tE.L. James and the Fifty Shades phenomenon /
_rDara Downey --
_tFact, fiction, fabrication: the popular appeal of Dan Brown's global bestsellers /
_rIan Kinane --
_t'I need to disillusion you': J.K. Rowling and twenty-first century young adult fantasy /
_rKate Harvey --
_tJodi Picoult: good grief /
_rClare Hayes-Brady --
_t'We will have a happy marriage if it kills him": Gillian Flynn and the rise of domestic noir /
_rBernice M. Murphy --
_t'The Bastard Zone': China Mieville, Perdido Street Station and the new weird /
_rKirsten Tranter --
_tSparkly Vampires and shimmering aliens: the paranormal romance of Stephenie Meyer /
_rHannah Priest --
_t'We needed to get a lot of white collars dirty': Apocalypse as opportunity in Max Brooks's World War Z /
_rBernice M. Murphy --
_tGenre and uncertainty in Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad mysteries /
_rBrian Cliff --
_t'You get what you ask for': Hugh Howey, science fiction and authorial agency /
_rStephen Kenneally --
_tCherie Priest: at the intersection of history and technology /
_rCatherine Siemann.
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650 0 _aEnglish fiction
_y21st century
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650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y21st century
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650 0 _aPopular literature
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655 1 _aElectronic Books.
700 1 _aMurphy, Bernice M.,
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700 1 _aMatterson, Stephen,
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