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Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture (Conspiracy Theories) by Ben Carver; Dana Crăciun; Todor Hristov is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture (Conspiracy Theories) about?

This edited collection contributes to the study of conspiracy culture by analysing the relationship of literary forms to the formation, reception, and transformation of conspiracy theories. Conspiracy theories are narratives, and their narrative form provides the structure within which their ‘readers’ situate themselves when interpreting the world and its history. At the same time, conspiracist interpretations of the world may then be transmediated into works of literature and import popular discourse into narrative structures. The suppression and disappearance of books themselves may generate conspiracy theories and become co-opted into political dissent. Additionally, literary criticism itself is shown to adopt conspiracist modes of interpretation. By examining conspiracy plots as __literary plots__, with narrative, rhetorical, and symbolic characteristics, this volume is the first systematic study of how conspiracy culture in American and European history is the consequence of its interactions with literature. This book will be of great interest to researchers of conspiracy theories, literature, and literary criticism.

Who reads Plots: Literary Form and Conspiracy Culture (Conspiracy Theories)?

Author

Ben Carver; Dana Crăciun; Todor Hristov

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780367500696

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Literary Fiction