Genre Bending by Jeremy Rosen - 9781503644236

Genre BendingThe Plasticity of Form in Contemporary Literary Fiction\nAuthor(s): Jeremy Rosen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503644236, 978-1503644236\nSynopsis\nDetective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular fiction genres. In this comprehensive account, Jeremy Rosen describes literary fiction's embrace of genre fiction's conceits as \""genre bending\"" and argues that while literary writers adopt genres for a wide variety of purposes, what they share is a revitalized attitude toward genrea recognition that while genres can be used in formulaic ways, they can also be adapted and transformed endlessly.\n\n Rosen reads across the outpouring of fiction of the last several decades by writers like Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, L.