Popular Fiction on (Un)Popular Southern Themes: Fred Chappell's Fantastic Stories
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angličtina
Original language name
Popular Fiction on (Un)Popular Southern Themes: Fred Chappell's Fantastic Stories
Original language description
The article highlights the role of popular genres (detective stories, science fiction, horror, fantasy) in the works of Fred Chappell, a contemporary Appalachian novelist, poet, and essayist. In Chappell's opinion, genre fiction should be rehabilitated in the eyes of "serious" writers, even though each genre contains a set of rules that may suppress authors' creativity and imagination; the existence of rules can even be considered an advantage. Genre literature always helped Chappell to cast fresh looksat traditional aspects of southern culture and history. While sci-fi and detective fiction have only a limited use, the most suitable genre for challenging traditions is fantasy. In his fantastic stories, Chappell uses the versatility of the genre to see his native South from many different points of view. Through them, he perceives the South, especially Appalachian North Carolina, alternately as popular and unpopular: such a dichotomy applies to his rendering of southern history, manne
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage
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Continuities
Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)
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Publication year
2011
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
The (Un)Popular South: Proceedings of the Southern Studies Forum Biennial Conference, September 6-9, 2007, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
ISBN
978-80-244-2888-8
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Number of pages
26
Pages from-to
171-196
Publisher name
Univerzita Palackého
Place of publication
Olomouc
Event location
Olomouc
Event date
Sep 6, 2007
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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