Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction
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Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Twenty-First-Century Popular Fiction

About this book

This groundbreaking collection provides students with a timely and accessible overview of current trends within contemporary popular fiction.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction: ‘Changing the Story’ – Popular Fiction Today
  6. 1. Larry McMurtry’s Vanishing Breeds
  7. 2. ‘Time to Open the Door’: Stephen King’s Legacy
  8. 3. Terry Pratchett: Mostly Human
  9. 4. From Westeros to HBO: George R. R. Martin and the Mainstreaming of Fantasy
  10. 5. Nora Roberts: The Power of Love
  11. 6. The King of Stories: Neil Gaiman’s Twenty-First-Century Fiction
  12. 7. Jo Nesbø: Murder in the Folkhemmet
  13. 8. ‘It’s a Trap! Don’t Turn the Page’: Metafiction and the Multiverse in the Comics of Grant Morrison
  14. 9. Panoptic and Synoptic Surveillance in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Series
  15. 10. E. L. James and the Fifty Shades Phenomenon
  16. 11. Fact, Fiction, Fabrication: The Popular Appeal of Dan Brown’s Global Bestsellers
  17. 12. ‘I Need to Disillusion You’: J. K. Rowling and Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Fantasy
  18. 13. Jodi Picoult: Good Grief
  19. 14. ‘We Will Have a Happy Marriage If It Kills Him’: Gillian Flynn and the Rise of Domestic Noir
  20. 15. ‘The Bastard Zone’: China Miéville, Perdido Street Station and the New Weird
  21. 16. Sparkly Vampires and Shimmering Aliens: The Paranormal Romance of Stephenie Meyer
  22. 17. ‘We Needed to Get a Lot of White Collars Dirty’: Apocalypse as Opportunity in Max Brooks’s World War Z (2006)
  23. 18. Genre and Uncertainty in Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad Mysteries
  24. 19. ‘You Get What You Ask For’: Hugh Howey, Science Fiction and Authorial Agency
  25. 20. Cherie Priest: At the Intersection of History and Technology
  26. About the Contributors
  27. Index