Adam Roberts

Issue 3.2 Previous Issues

From Genre to Zenre

Christos Callow Jr. October 17, 2014 No Comments Adam Roberts Buddha evaporating genres fantastic literature Farah Mendlesohn Gary K. Wolfe genre fiction Hamlet horror fiction literary criticism Ray Bradbury science fiction SF definitions Zen koan Zen philosophy Zenre fiction

In response to the question “what are you reading, my lord?” the young prince simply says “words, words, words!” (Shakespeare, 74). But perhaps the answer Polonius was looking for was a more…

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Issue 2.2 Previous Issues

Remix Culture and the Literary Mashup

Jacob Murphy March 26, 2013 8 Comments Adam Roberts adaptation studies Android Karenina BBC costume drama Charles Dickens Coleridge Cook death of the author Franz Kafka Great Expectations Harry Potter parodies hybrid text I Am Scrooge Jane Austen literary adaptation literary canon literary genre literary mashup Lolcatz mashup fiction Meowmorphosis Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Quirk Books Roland Barthes Seth Graeme-Smith The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

2009 saw the release of the first mainstream literary mashup – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Graeme-Smith. This particular book has produced a prequel (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies…

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