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Teaching 21st Century Genres

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • 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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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
  2. Utopias and Dystopias

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
  3. World Literature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
    2. Teaching Contemporary Cosmopolitanism

      • Kristian Shaw
      Pages 167-185
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 187-195

About this book

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.




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

  • Faculty of Arts, Environment and Technol, Leeds Beckett University Faculty of Arts, Environment and Technol, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Katy Shaw

Bibliographic Information

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eBook USD 39.99
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  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 99.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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