Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture - 9780367500696

Taylor & Francis

Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy CultureAuthor(s): Ben Carver, Dana Craciun, Todor Hristov\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367500696, 978-0367500696\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\n\nConspiracy 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. .