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 Da...

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Main Author Wegrodzka, Jadwiga (Author)
Other Authors Wilczynski, Marek (Editor)
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Frankfurt a.M. Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2018
Edition1st, New ed.
SeriesTransatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture 23
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783653072105
Physical Description1 online zdroj (200 stran)

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Table 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