Search Results for genre fiction

...Noelle Darling Abstract This article situates Amitav Ghosh—as both critic and novelist—in relation to the contemporary genre turn, as a means of questioning the logical distinctions undergirding ideas of literariness. Readers of Ghosh tend to cast the overtly science‐fictional The Calcutta...

...John Kucich Abstract Generic innovation has the potential to create strong new frameworks for political discourse. Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South hybridizes two nineteenth-century narrative genres—political melodrama and domestic fiction—to invite readerly involvement in the creation of new...

... also urge reconsideration of the relationship between capital- L literature and genre fiction. Freed from an obligation to represent the nation, contemporary postcolonial genre novels can stand out in their eagerness to join commentary from across the disciplines in busily considering the shape...

..., this article suggests how genre fiction can also generate new forms of literary critique and systems of reading. Copyright © 2019 by Novel, Inc. 2019 Jurassic Park Chang-rae Lee speculative fiction systems reading What is a novel and how does one read it? However rudimentary this question may...

... of espionage in Britain as well as in British spy fiction. Following on from this genealogy of genre, it interrogates the novel's protagonist's claim that “[t]he world has been remade by William Le Queux” in the context of the dual histories of espionage in Britain and the spy in British fiction, while...

... genres of detective fiction and comic books reveals how its race consciousness and postmodernism inform each other. Samuel R. Delany theorizes paraliterature as the discursive other against which “literature” is defined. The Intuitionist takes paraliterature seriously so as to (1) pay homage to Edgar...

... to the formal particularities of the novels and films it treats. Martin is a scrupulous and surprising close reader who distinguishes his approach to contemporary fiction via a robust theory of genre. Metaphorically speaking, genre confers historical drag on the contemporary's drift. Methodologically speaking...

... novelists) that seems to point toward a more conventional feminist perspective. However, in selecting novelists who have had a vexed relationship with feminist politics—Iris Murdoch and Anita Brookner—and novelists who have been classed with genre fiction—Ruth Rendell and Emma Tennant— Turner asks us...

... of the eighteenth century, it also began its course as a transnational genre for the first time. Its transnationality was an effect of a particularly modern set of practices and attitudes about translating fiction in the European core. Thus transnationalism describes a new period in prose fiction's mobility...

... these narratives direct readerly attention to information about the management of disasters. It also mediates a retrieval of foundational concerns of postcolonial theory, and lastly, it accommodates an inclusive narratology of disaster, enabling interpretation of mainstream literature alongside genre fiction...

...Lisa Zunshine My essay emphasizes the social aspect of our engagement with fictional narratives by drawing on cognitive scientists' research into “theory of mind,” also known as “mind reading”: our evolved adaptation for explaining people's behavior in terms of their mental states, such as thoughts...

... . . . cannot hope to take the smallest step.” Such a limit is seemingly crossed in one of the most difficult and quite possibly the strangest of passages in J. M. Coetzee's fiction: the ending of Foe . This book's self-conscious re-presentation of the origins of the English novel (and of Defoe's inauguration...

...Jesse McCarthy Abstract The category of the postcolonial novel is familiar, but what makes a novel anti colonial? This article attempts to answer this question by reconstructing a genealogy of anticolonial fiction. I argue that these novels are preeminently the product of a social and intellectual...

...Bill Solomon This essay adopts Susan Stewart's notion of distressed genres as a way to interrogate the seemingly nostalgic strain of American modernist fiction produced in the early decades of the twentieth century. The first section reads Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio alongside Walter...

... finds naive and antiquated and which he discusses at great length with Anya) and then devises a plan to bilk this wilted author out of his considerable savings. The novel, then, comprises a variety of genres and styles simultaneously, with “traditional” fictional storytelling, diary entries...

...Lauren M. E. Goodlad Recent critical thought has begun to recognize realist fiction as a transnational medium that responds to capitalist permutations across time and space and, in doing so, is shot through with aesthetic possibility. The essays in this special issue reject the reflex to prejudge...

... potential of this approach to fiction is most evident in The Politics of Literature; while Rancie`re resists particularizing genres, placing War and Peace and Madame Bovary just as readily alongside Ste´phane Mallarme´’s symbolist poetry or Georges Duby’s bio- graphy of William Marshal to instantiate...

.... This article focuses on literary portraiture in the Jesus novel, a genre of historical fiction that emerged independently in different national literatures from the 1830s onward alongside several parallel developments, including the secularization of biblical scholarship, the rediscovery of early Christian...

... clear in Dickens’s fiction that the domestic order cannot be extricated from these failures. Where the genre’s ideological work seems to require the functional separateness of domesticity from an external socio- economic sphere, the texts that anchor Miller’s claims actually do much to trouble...

... genre theory, it is possible to detect some notable tension between the pragmatic, sociological account of MCE's success in the fiction market and a good historical grasp of MCE's role in cultural politics. The tension here is symptomatic of our disciplinary situation, not of a flaw in this book's...