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Issue 1.4 Previous Issues

Departures: The Novel, the Non-Place and the Airport

Bianca Leggett September 1, 2012 16 Comments A Week at the Airport Aerotropolis airport library airport novel Alain de Botton Christopher Schaberg globalisation Greg Lindsey Heathrow Writer in Residence hyper-mobile times John D. Kasadra literature non-place place Rana Dasgupta space synecdoche temporality Textual Life of Airports Tokyo Cancelled travel

The term airport novel is something of a misnomer: while the spy novel must by definition involve spying and the historical novel takes readers back into history, airport novels aspire to remove us from the world of the airport. Designed to distract the reader from the boredom…

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Issue 1.4 Previous Issues

Transgression and Contemporary Fiction

Martyn James Colebrook September 1, 2012 2 Comments Alasdair Gray Ali Smith Anthony Burgess Bill Drummond contemporary fiction David Britton Duncan McLean Ewan Morrison genre Gothic Iain Banks Irvine Welsh James Kelman James Robertson Johnny Glynn literature Marabou Stork Nightmares Mark Manning Michael Butterworth Niall Griffiths obscenity Patrick McCabe Peter Sotos Ron Butlin Scottish Gothic Toni Davidson transgression

One of the overt criticisms directed towards popular fiction is its requirement for a formulaic structure of characters, plot and narrative, which risks perpetuating the stereotype that all such fiction is repetitious, mass-produced and lacking in depth and originality.

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