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Conspiracies / editor, James Plath.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical Insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conspiracies in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 297 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Critical Insights
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press : Grey House Publishing, [2020]
- Summary:
- "This volume explores touchstone moments in conspiracy fiction--in film as well as in classic and popular works--and delves into the socio-political aspects of conspiracies while examining them at the heart of some of the most beloved canonical literature in English"-- From publisher description.
- Contents:
- About this volume / James Plath
- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of conspiracy / James Plath
- Conspiracies and religion in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci code / Tammie M. Kennedy
- Corporations as villains in postwar conspiracy films / Rebecca Bell-Metereau
- "The old man's laughter" : the conspiracy of American life in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man / Matthew Shipe
- Heroism and indeterminacy in Oliver Stone's JFK and Don DeLillo's Libra / Tim Engles
- Conspiracy : not just a theory in contemporary young adult fiction / M. Katherine Grimes
- Conspiracy in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / Robert C. Evans
- State conspiracies in Aldous Huxley's Brave new world / Thomas Horan
- Conspiracy in George Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four / Robert C. Evans
- Conspiracies of the flesh : disciplinary power and female embodiment in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Aisha Matthews
- Who reads the reader? Surveilling the conspiracies in Watchmen / Sid Sondergard
- Suspicion, conspiracy, and overinterpretation in Foucault's pendulum / Jessica Sciubba
- Irrational, unimaginable (and perhaps unintelligible) horrors : super/natural conspirators in The shining / Peter J. Bailey
- What evil lurks : James Bond's battles with S.P.E.C.T.R.E. / Erik Esckilsen
- Oedipa Maas and the uses of conspiracy in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 / J. Kerry Grant
- Additional works on conspiracies
- Bibliography
- About the editor
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781642653748
- 1642653748
- OCLC:
- 1180970786
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