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

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

AL - Umění, architektura, kulturní dědictví

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Rok uplatnění

2011

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

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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Počet stran výsledku

26

Strana od-do

171-196

Název nakladatele

Univerzita Palackého

Místo vydání

Olomouc

Místo konání akce

Olomouc

Datum konání akce

6. 9. 2007

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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