Popular fiction and spatiality : reading genre settings / Lisa Fletcher, editor.
Material type: TextSeries: Geocriticism and spatial literary studiesPublisher: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: xix, 220 pages : illustration ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781137571410 (hbk.)
- 809.04 FLE 019347 23
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Mieville'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.
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