Reading Popular Narrative: A Source BookIncreasingly a body of critical thought is developing that addresses the techniques, ideology and appeal of those texts with the most extensive readership and box-office appeal. In this sourcebook Ashley collects examples of the most prominent studies of popular narrative. The selections seek to introduce the reader to the important issues and problems - how to define the popular text, the complex relationship between a text and its readers or viewers, the range of popular genres and the principal critical approaches of critics and theorists. These disparate and frequently competing readings debate the issues theoretically and offer close analyses of such popular genres as thrillers, horror, romances, westerns, and science fiction. |
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publishing and popular fiction 1984 | 5 |
3 | 33 |
Formula genre and the structuralist analysis | 67 |
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| Title | Reading Popular Narrative: A Source Book Reading Popular Narrative: A Source Book, Bob Ashley |
| Editor | Bob Ashley |
| Edition | 2, illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Leicester University Press, 1997 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0718500822, 9780718500825 |
| Length | 246 pages |
| Subjects | › Literary Criticism / General |
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