{"product_id":"h-g-wells-the-literary-traveller-in-his-fantastic-short-story-machine-9783631653722","title":"H. G. Wells: The Literary Traveller in His","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book offers a thorough study of the literary tensions and two-world structure of the fantastic short stories by H. G. Wells (1866–1946). It exposes trickster games in the storytelling and pinpoints Wells’s staple methods of artistic composition – the mounting of various literary tensions built upon the body of traditional, dexterously combined genre elements and innovative topoi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eH. G. Wells: The Literary Traveller in His Fantastic Short Story Machine\u003c\/i\u003e by Halszka Leleń is a well-researched and original volume that will be of interest to both Wells specialists and all scholars and students working in literary and cultural studies. Anyone who thinks – as the traditional literary historians did – that H. G. Wells was a minor novelist, a journalist and technological visionary rather than an artist will find this study thought-provoking and inspiring. (Barbara Klonowska, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin)\u003cbr\u003e The book is a conscientious scrutiny of H. G. Wells’s twenty-five short stories presenting a doubled chronotope and so rightfully recognised by Leleń as fantastic fiction. The greatest asset of the monograph is focusing on Wells’s intricate use of distinct genre conventions – those of the fairy tale, folk ballad, chivalric romance, detective fiction, dystopia and others – often bound together in particular texts. (Andrzej Zgorzelski, Professor Emeritus University of Gdansk)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Fantastic short story and literary tensions – H. G. Wells – Literary experiment – Artistic patterns and multiple genre impact – Parody – Polyvalent fantastic worlds – Spatial motifs – Topoi of science and quest – Bakhtin's heteroglossia – Transposition of utopia into dystopia – Inconsequence, instability and trickster strategies.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044282040663,"sku":"9783631653722","price":55.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783631653722.jpg?v=1750961128","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/h-g-wells-the-literary-traveller-in-his-fantastic-short-story-machine-9783631653722","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}