Description |
x, 246 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Pt. 1. Introduction: the reading of popular texts: some initial problems. 1. Reading by numbers: contemporary publishing and popular fiction (1984) / K. Worpole. 2. 'Towards a definition of popular literature' (1975) / L. Fiedler. 3. 'Against evaluation: the role of the critic of popular culture' (1975) / R. Rollin. 4. 'Production and reproduction: the case of Frankenstein' (1983) / P. O'Flinn -- Pt. 2. Mass society theory: British 'literary' and continental 'sociological' approaches. 5. Fiction and the reading public (1932) / Q. D. Leavis. 6. The long revolution (1961) / R. Williams. 7. 'Culture industry reconsidered' (1967) / T. W. Adorno. 8. The popular arts (1964) / S. Hall and P. Whannel. 9. 'The storyteller' (n.d.) / Walter Benjamin. 10. 'The case of Miss Dorothy Sayers' (1937) / Q. D. Leavis. 11. 'On popular music' (1941) / T. W. Adorno -- Pt. 3. Formula, genre and the structuralist analysis of narrative. 12. 'The concept of formula in the study of popular literature' (1969) / John G. Cawelti. 13. Morphology of the folk tale (1928) / Vladimir Propp. 14. 'Introduction to the structural analysis of narratives' (1966) / Roland Barthes. 15. Sixguns and society: a structural study of the Western (1975) / Will Wright. 16. Genre (1980) / Stephen Neale. 17. The six-gun mystique (n.d.) / John G. Cawelti. 18. 'Thrilling structures? science fiction from the early Amazing and detective fiction' (1987) / Elizabeth Kwasniewski. 19. 'The narrative structure in Fleming' (1966) / Umberto Eco -- Pt. 4. Ideology, readers, pleasure: post-structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis. 20. 'Ideology and ideological state apparatuses' (1971) / Louis Althusser. 21. 'Recent developments in English Studies at the Centre' (1976) / English Studies Group, CCCS, University of Birmingham. 22. 'Natural boundaries: the social function of popular fiction' (1978) / Roger Bromley. 23. A theory of literary production (1978) / Pierre Macherey. 24. 'The death of the author' (1978) / Roland Barthes. 25. The pleasure of the text (1973) / Roland Barthes. 26. 'A critical survey of the theoretical and practical achievements of the past ten years' (1976) / Stuart Hall. 27. 'Marxism and popular fiction' (1981) / Tony Bennett. 28. Classic psychoanalytic texts: 'Anxiety' (1926), 'Totem and taboo' (1912-13), 'The uncanny' (1919), 'Medusa's head' (1922), 'Fetishism' (1927) / Sigmund Freud. 29. 'The dream of Irma's injection' (1954-55) / J. Lacan. 30. The double: a psychoanalytic study (1914) / Otto Rank. 31. The powers of horror (1980) / Julia Kristeva. 32. Catching them young 2: political ideas in children's fiction (1977) / Bob Dixon. 33. 'Thrillers: the deviant behind the consensus' (1973) / Jerry Palmer. 34. Demand the impossible: science fiction and the Utopian imagination (1986) / Tom Moylan. 35. Terrors of uncertainty: the cultural contexts of horror fiction (1989) / Joseph Grixti. 36. The philosophy of horror (1990) / Noel Carroll. 37. 'An introduction to the modern American horror film' (1984) / Robin Wood. 38. Men, women and chain saws: gender in the modern horror film (1992) / Carol Clover. 39. '"I shall be with you on your wedding night": Lacan and the uncanny' (1991) / Mladen Dolar. 40. 'Fetishism in the horror film' (1989) / Roger Dadoun. 41. The monstrous-feminine: film, feminism and psychoanalysis (1993) / Barbara Creed. 42. The acoustic mirror (1988) / Kaja Silverman. 43. 'An unsuitable genre for a feminist?' (1986) / Cora Kaplan. 44. 'Jackie: an ideology of adolescent femininity' (1978) / Angela McRobbie. 45. 'Pulp in the pink' (1981) / Janet Batsleer. 46. '"Returning to Manderley": romance fiction, female sexuality and class' (1984) / Alison Light. 47. 'Teenage girls reading Jackie' (1987) / Elizabeth Frazer. 48. Critical practice (1980) / Catherine Belsey |
Notes |
1st ed. entitled: The study of popular fiction : a source book |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-244) and index |
Notes |
Also issued online |
Subject |
Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History.
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English fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Popular literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Reader-response criticism.
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Author |
Ashley, Bob, 1946-
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LC no. |
96038315 |
ISBN |
0718500822 (hard cover) |
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0718500830 (paperback) |
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