Popular Genres and Their Uses in Fiction

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.

List of contents

Romance - Fantasy - Science fiction - Dystopia - Thriller - What-if historical fiction - Genre mixture - Adaptation - Intertextuality - World models - Formula - Barbara Delinsky - Lilian Darcy - Jennifer Greene - Michel Faber - J. L. Carrel - Michael Crichton - Ursula Le Guin - C. S. Lewis - William Golding

About the author

Jadwiga W¿grodzka is Associate Professor of British Literature at the University of Gdäsk. She publishes on children's literature, fantasy, science fiction, crime fiction, fairy tale, as well as poetry and British artistic fiction. She also edited volumes on fictional characters and literary canons.

Product details

• Authors: Jadwiga W¿grodzka, Jadwiga Wegrodzka
• Assisted by: Marek Wilczynski (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9783631677117
• ISBN: 978-3-631-67711-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 18 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 335 g
• Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture; Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures