Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture (Lettre) - Softcover

 
9783837640274: Exploring the Fantastic: Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture (Lettre)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3837640272 ISBN 13: 9783837640274
Verlag: transcript, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ina Batzke is a lecturer and research assistant at Münster University and visiting scholar at UC Santa Barbara, California (2016-2018). Her research interests include Migration and Refugee Literature, Life Writing, Law and Literature, and Ethnic Studies.
Eric C. Erbacher is an American Studies scholar based in Münster, Germany. His research interests include Urban Studies, Media Studies, and Cultural Studies, with a focus on the intersection of these fields with issues of Visual Culture, especially photography, Popular Culture, and Class.
Linda M. Heß is a lecturer (wiss. Mitarbeiterin) and post-doctoral candidate at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt/Main. Her main research and teaching interests are located in the fields of Queer Studies, Aging Studies, Science Fiction, Modernism, and Gender Studies. She is a member of the Governing Council of the North American Network of Aging Studies (NANAS).
Corinna Lenhardt is a research assistant and lecturer in American Studies at the University of Münster, Germany. She is a member of the editorial team of the Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung, the most important forum for research in the fantastic in Germany. Her research and teaching interests include Ethnic Studies, digital cultures, race, gender, and Gothic fiction.

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The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings.

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Verlag
transcript
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3837640272
ISBN 13 
9783837640274
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
300
Herausgeber
Ina Batzke, Eric C. Erbacher, Linda M. Heß, Corinna Lenhardt
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