Intrigues : Forme littéraire et culture du complot, couverture rigide par Carver, Ben magasin (EDT);...

Product Name: Intrigues : Forme littéraire et culture du complot, couverture rigide par Carver, Ben magasin (EDT);...
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Plots : Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture, Hardcover by Carver, Ben (EDT); Cracian, Dana (EDT); Hristov, Todor (EDT), ISBN 0367500698, ISBN-13 9780367500696, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK

"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. Byexamining 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"--.