Overview
- Examines themes of the supernatural, the bizarre, and destiny in weird fiction
- Studies representative weird tales to illuminate key genre elements and the role of identity
- Extends research of Gothic, horror, speculative, and weird fiction
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Weird Fiction: A Genre Study presents a comprehensive, contemporary analysis of the genre of weird fiction by identifying the concepts that influence and produce it. Focusing on the sources of narrative content—how the content is produced and what makes something weird—Michael Cisco engages with theories from Deleuze and Guattari to explain how genres work and to understand the relationship between identity and the ordinary. Cisco also uses these theories to examine the supernatural not merely as a horde of tropes, but as a recognition of the infinity of experience in defiance of limiting norms. The book also traces the sociopolitical implications of weird fiction, studying the differentiation of major and minor literatures. Through an articulated theoretical model and close textual analysis, readers will learn not only what weird fiction is, but how and why it is produced.
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
"Michael Cisco's study is a must-read for writers, scholars, and students of weird fiction and philosophy." —Sean Moreland, Professor of English, University of Ottawa, Canada.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Cisco is Associate Professor of English at Hostos Community College, USA. His scholarly work has appeared in Lovecraft Studies, The Weird Fiction Review, Iranian Studies, Lovecraft and Influence, The Lovecraftian Poe, and New Directions in Supernatural Horror Literature (Palgrave 2019). He is the author of the novels The Divinity Student, The Golem, The Traitor, The Tyrant, The Great Lover, The Narrator, CELEBRANT, MEMBER, ANIMAL MONEY, and UNLANGUAGE, a short story collection called Secret Hours, and a novella called THE KNIFE DANCE.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Weird Fiction
Book Subtitle: A Genre Study
Authors: Michael Cisco
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92450-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92449-2Published: 01 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92452-2Published: 02 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92450-8Published: 31 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 335
Topics: Fiction, Contemporary Literature, Literature, general, Gothic Studies, Metaphysics