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This page lists ARPF sponsorsed events and provides updates.  It also gives details of cfps, new publications and initiatives in the broader field of popular fiction research than the specialised networks.

ARPF Anuual Conference 2011:  Researching Popular Fiction: Method, Practice and Resonant Themes Postponed until 25th February.

Cfp Postgraduate Symposium: Tolkien Studies

New Publication: The Richard and Judy Book Club Reader: Popular Texts and The Practices of Reading edited by Jenni Ramone and Helen Cousins

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  • Contents: Introduction: on readers and reading, Jenni Ramone and Helen Cousins; Part 1 The Richard & Judy Book Club Readers: Suspicious minds: Richard & Judy’s Book Club and its resistant readers, Danielle Fuller and DeNel Rehberg Sedo; Entertainment media, risk and the experience commodity, Nickianne Moody; Different spaces, same old stories? On being a reader in the Richard & Judy Book Club, Alex Kendall and Julian McDougall; Richard and Judy behind bars, Jenny Hartley. Part 2 Reading the Richard & Judy Book Club Selections: You can’t judge a book by its coverage: the body that writes and the television book club, Kerry Myler; ‘Not the normal kind of chicklit’? Richard & Judy and the feminised middlebrow, Beth Driscoll; The roles of the storytellers: Richard and Judy read The Jane Austen Book Club, Jenni Ramone; A good authentic read: exoticism in the postcolonial novels of the Richard & Judy Book Club, Helen Cousins; The delicious side of the story: culinary writing, cultural contexts and the club, Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Part 3 After The Richard & Judy Book Club: ‘What really counts is the story’: interview with Andrew Smith, author of Moondust (February 10, 2010), Jenni Ramone; Ten of thousands: the TV book club, Helen Cousins; Appendix; Index.

    • Conference cfp: Sea-Changes: A Maritime Conference in the Humanities

     Collection cfp: The Orange Prize for Fiction

     Adapting Historical Narratives
    A one-day conference

    Organised by the Centre for Adaptations, De Montfort University, Leicester,

    Tuesday 28 February 2012

    Papers are invited across a wide range of interpretations of the topic, genres of ‘historical narrative’ (fictional, fact-based, hybrid), represented periods, and histories (from royal to political to popular-cultural). Focuses might include heritage cinema; historical
    documentaries and docudramas; biopics; retro nostalgia; contemporary history on screen; new-media developments and convergences in the representation and remediation of history; and constructions of national histories and historical nationalisms.

    Proposals (of no more than 200 words) should be sent to Deborah Cartmell and
    Claire Monk (djc@dmu.ac.uk; cmonk@dmu.ac.uk) by 2 December 2012.

    Archive: ARPF Annual Conference 2010 Popular fictions: Selling Culture?

    Archive: The Life and Work of Jane Webb Loudon Women and Science in the Nineteenth-Century: Science Fiction and Science Education

    Crime and Detective Fiction

    Australian Popular Fiction Research Project

    The Australian Popular Fictions Research Community aims to create the most comprehensive resource relating to authors, texts and the publishing history of Australian popular, pulp and genre fiction by drawing together readers and scholars working in the field of popular culture research as it relates to literary narratives across Australian history.

    Definition of Popular Fiction: Sally Thacker Meinhardt

     

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