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Popular Fiction on (Un)Popular Southern Themes: Fred Chappell's Fantastic Stories

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F11%3A33116088" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/11:33116088 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    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

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    D - Article in proceedings

  • CEP classification

    AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Others

  • Publication year

    2011

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • 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

  • ISSN

  • e-ISSN

  • 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

  • UT code for WoS article