04883nam 22006735 450 991014943390332120200703060332.01-137-56902-610.1057/978-1-137-56902-8(CKB)3710000000926236(DE-He213)978-1-137-56902-8(MiAaPQ)EBC4731240(EXLCZ)99371000000092623620161031d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPopular Fiction and Spatiality Reading Genre Settings /edited by Lisa Fletcher1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (XIX, 220 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.) Geocriticism and Spatial Literary StudiesIncludes index.1-137-57141-1 Introduction: Space, Place and Popular Fiction, Lisa Fletcher -- Cave Genres/Genre Caves: Reading the Subterranean Thriller, Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher -- Unstable Places and Generic Spaces: Thrillers Set in Antarctica, Elizabeth Leane -- Chronotopic Reading of Crime Fiction: Montréal in La Trace de l’Escargot, Marc Brosseau and Pierre-Mathieu Le Bel -- Romance in the Backblocks in New Zealand Popular Fiction, 1930-1950: Mary Scott’s Barbara Stories, Jane Stafford -- The Inside Story: Jennifer Crusie and the Architecture of Love, William Gleason -- Ghost-Al Erosion: Beaches and the Supernatural in Two Stories by M. R. James, Lucie Armitt -- Pagan Places: Contemporary Paganism, British Fantasy Fiction, and the Case of Ryhope Wood, Kim Wilkins -- Tolkien’s Geopolitical Fantasy: Spatial Narrative in The Lord of the Rings, Robert T. Tally Jr. -- Commuting to Another World: Spaces of Transport and Transport Maps in Urban Fantasy, David Pike -- Mapping Monstrosity: Metaphorical Geographies in China Miéville’s Bas-Lag Trilogy, Robert A. Saunders -- Air Force One: Popular (Non)Fiction in Flight, Christopher Schaberg -- States of Nostalgia in the Genre of the Future: Panem, Globalization, and Utopia in The Hunger Games Trilogy, Eric D. Smith and Kylie Korsnack -- Bibliography -- 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 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.Geocriticism and Spatial Literary StudiesLiterature, Modern—20th centuryLiterature   Literature—PhilosophyCulture—Study and teachingEuropean literatureAmerica—LiteraturesTwentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000Postcolonial/World Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000Literary Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000Cultural Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411130European Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/832000North American Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/834000Literature, Modern—20th century.Literature   .Literature—Philosophy.Culture—Study and teaching.European literature.America—Literatures.Twentieth-Century Literature.Postcolonial/World Literature.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.European Literature.North American Literature.809.04Fletcher Lisaedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtBOOK9910149433903321Popular Fiction and Spatiality2531167UNINA