Conspiracies /
This volume explores touchstone moments in conspiracy fiction, in film as well as in classic and popular works, and delves into the sociopolitical aspects of conspiracies while examining them at the heart of some of the most beloved canonical literature in English.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, New York :
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing,
[2020].
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| Series: | Critical insights.
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Table of 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.