Carver / Craciun / Hristov | Plots | Buch | 978-0-367-50069-6 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Conspiracy Theories

Carver / Craciun / Hristov

Plots

Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-50069-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Conspiracy Theories

ISBN: 978-0-367-50069-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)


This edited collection contributes to the study of conspiracy culture by analysing the relationship of literary forms to the formation, reception, and transformation of conspiracy theories.

Conspiracy theories are narratives, and their narrative form provides the structure within which their ‘readers’ situate themselves when interpreting the world and its history. At the same time, conspiracist interpretations of the world may then be transmediated into works of literature and import popular discourse into narrative structures. The suppression and disappearance of books themselves may generate conspiracy theories and become co-opted into political dissent. Additionally, literary criticism itself is shown to adopt conspiracist modes of interpretation. By examining conspiracy plots as literary plots, with narrative, rhetorical, and symbolic characteristics, this volume is the first systematic study of how conspiracy culture in American and European history is the consequence of its interactions with literature.

This book will be of great interest to researchers of conspiracy theories, literature, and literary criticism.

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Opening Considerations 1. Introduction 2. ‘Turning Points’: Plots and Conspiracy in Literature Section 1. Conspiracy Theories about Books and Authors 3. Erich Auerbach’s Conspiracy Theory 4. In Pursuit of Nationhood vis-à-vis Russia: The Search for Lost Manuscripts in Post-Soviet Countries 5. Conspiracy Reading: New Literary Perspectives on Paranoia in Thomas Pynchon Section 2. Plotting: Narrative Forms of Conspiracy 6. ‘The Cash Nexus’: Realism and Conspiracy in Balzac and Dickens 7. Conspiracy Narratives in Serialized Comics: An Exploration 8. Conspiracy Narratives and American Apocalypticism in The Turner Diaries Section 3. Fictional Disclosures: Conspiracy and the Politics of Truth 9. Suspicious Fictions: Fictionalising Acts in a Conspiracy Novel 10. Half-Truths: On an Instrument of Post-Truth Politics (and Conspiracy Narratives) 11. Men Make Their Own History: Conspiracy as Counter-narrative in the German Political Field



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