Popular Genres and Their Uses in Fiction Hardback
by Jadwiga Wegrodzka
Part of the Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture series
Hardback
Description
The book focuses on popular genres of romance, fantasy, science fiction, dystopia, thriller, and What-if historical fiction in popular books, in artistic literature and on the borderline between the two.
The author analyses the work of writers such as Jennifer Greene, Barbara Delinsky, and Lilian Darcy, Jennifer Lee Carrel, Michael Crichton, Ursula Le Guin, C.
S. Lewis, Michel Faber and William Golding. She applies an analytical approach based on semiotics, structuralism and narratology and discusses genre mixture, adaptation and intertextuality, as well as world modelling.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date:12/06/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783631677117
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:200 pages
- Publisher:Peter Lang AG
- Publication Date:12/06/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9783631677117