Overview
- Represents the first book to deal with the teaching of contemporary genre fiction
- Covers key areas in literary studies: genre fiction and contemporary fiction
- Include contributions from well-known academics in the area
Part of the book series: Teaching the New English (TENEEN)
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This book is the first ever collection about twenty-first century genre fiction. It offers accessible yet rigorous critical interventions in a growing field of popular culture and academic study, presenting new genres as a fascinating and powerful means of reading contemporary culture.
The collection explores the history and uses of genre to date, analyses key examples of innovations and developments in the field and reflects on how these texts have been mobilised in teaching since the year 2000. It explores a range of new twenty-first century genres through a close reading of key examples, along with a broader critical overview at the beginning of each chapter capturing wider developments, contexts and themes. As a result of this contextual, text-orientated approach, the book promotes a broad appeal beyond the specifics of new genres and authors, and will contribute to a wider understanding of developments in post-millennial fictions.
The collection explores the history and uses of genre to date, analyses key examples of innovations and developments in the field and reflects on how these texts have been mobilised in teaching since the year 2000. It explores a range of new twenty-first century genres through a close reading of key examples, along with a broader critical overview at the beginning of each chapter capturing wider developments, contexts and themes. As a result of this contextual, text-orientated approach, the book promotes a broad appeal beyond the specifics of new genres and authors, and will contribute to a wider understanding of developments in post-millennial fictions.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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World Literature
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“The essays collected here successfully capture the diversity and vibrancy of contemporary genre writing and the expert scholarship and enthusiasm which informs its teaching. This book persuasively demonstrates the pedagogic value and intellectual interest to be found in examining contemporary fiction and investigating genre writing.” (Rachel Carroll, Teesside University, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teaching 21st Century Genres
Editors: Katy Shaw
Series Title: Teaching the New English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55391-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55389-8Published: 20 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55390-4Published: 25 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55391-1Published: 25 November 2016
Series ISSN: 1754-9728
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9266
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 195
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Teaching and Teacher Education