دانلود کتاب Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture

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Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Opening considerations
1 Introduction
Genre
Narrative Patterns
Rhetoric
Fictionality
Future Perspectives
References
2 ‘Turning Points’: Plots in Conspiracy and Literature
Illumination/Illuminati
Stage/staged
The Resources of Scepticism
Training in Suspicion
Refining the Medium
Notes
References
Section 1 Conspiracy theories about books and authors
3 Erich Auerbach’s Conspiracy Theory
Figural Mimesis
Figures of Conspiracy
Conclusion: QAnon’s Conspiracy of Figures
Notes
References
4 In Pursuit of Nationhood Vis-À-Vis Russia: The Search for Lost Manuscripts in Post-Soviet Countries
Ukraine: Mikola Khvylovy’s Second Volume of The Woodcocks
Belarus: Uladzimir Karatkevich’s Second Volume of The Ears of Rye Under Thy Sickle
Discussion and Conclusion
Notes
References
5 Conspiracy Reading: New Literary Perspectives on Paranoia in Thomas Pynchon
Introduction
Pynchon Conspiracies
Paranoid Readers
Note
References
Section 2 Plotting: narrative forms of conspiracy
6 ‘The Cash Nexus’: Realism and Conspiracy in Balzac and Dickens
Money Plots
Realism and the Secret Society
Friends and Unfriends
Realism and Racism
Notes
References
7 Conspiracy Narratives in Serialized Comics: An Exploration
The Form of Comics and the Reader’s Imagination
The Comics Industry and the Writer’s Imagination
Paul McCartney and the Phantom Are Dead (And Spider-Man Is Not Spider-Man)
The Eternaut and the World Conspiracy Against South America
The Incredible Hulk After The X Files and 9/11
Concluding Remarks: to Be Continued?
Note
References
8 Conspiracy Narratives and American Apocalypticism in The Turner Diaries
Conspiracy and Apocalypse
The Turner Diaries
Conclusion
References
Section 3 Fictional disclosures: conspiracy and the politics of truth
9 Suspicious Fictions: The Fictionalizing Acts in a Conspiracist Novel
A Vulgar Novel
Reality Effect
Facts From Fiction
Transgressive Fiction
Conspiracist Pedagogy
Beyond Conspiracism
Notes
References
10 Half-Truths: on an Instrument of Post-Truth Politics (And Conspiracy Narratives)
The Post-Factual: a New Phenomenon?
Half-truths Produce Plausibility
Half-truths Are (Short) Stories
Half-truths Are Connective and ‘Multiversional’
Notes
References
11 Men Make Their Own History: Conspiracy as Counter-Narrative in the German Political Field
Conspiracy and Criticism
The RAF as a Disruption of the Real
The Real Is Partisan: F. J. Degenhardt’s Brandstellen (1975)
The Imaginative Work of Order of the Fragmented Proletariat
Terror as a Deformation of the Revolutionary Imagination
Terrorism as an Imagination of Order
Romantic Anti-Capitalism
Conclusion: Literature and Social Criticism
Notes
References
Index