This Day Our Daily Fictions : : An Enquiry into the Multi-Million Bestseller Status of Enid Blyton and Ian Fleming.

• Superior document: Costerus New
• VerfasserIn: Druce, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1992.; ©1992.
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Costerus New
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (393 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- NOTE -- PART I Enid Blyton, Ian Fleming, Their Writings, and the Critics -- 1 Introductory -- 2 Enid Blyton: Teacher and Writer -- 3 Sightseer, Reporter, Interpreter -- 4 Enid Blyton: The Critical Backlash -- 5 Ian Fleming and the James Bond Novels -- 6 "The Essential Thing is to Write Cursively" -- 7 James Bond and the Critics -- 8 James Bond in the Cinema -- PART II The Blyton and Fleming Fictions: Structure and Myth -- 9 Formula and Plot -- Series Publication: "Sequence" and "Cluster" -- Ennui, the Call, and the Quest: Blyton's Family/Adventure Stories -- Noddy: The Hero as Infant and Puppet -- 10 A "Confrontational" Analysis -- Fleming, Blyton, and the Tradition -- 11 The James Bond Myth -- Towards a Definition -- Myth and Fairy Tale -- James Bond, the Dragonslayer -- A Hero "Come of Age" -- 12 The Kingdom of the Dead, and the Myth of Rebirth -- 13 Variations in a Gothic Mode -- The Stereotypes of Villainy -- Fleming's "Unstable Montage" -- The Blyton Fictions -- PART III Ideologies -- 14 A Conflict of Codes -- 15 "Us" and "Them" -- Class and Race in Blyton's Fictions -- Class and Race in Fleming's Fictions -- The Hero's Aides -- 16 "The Sweet Tang of Rape" -- 17 The Solipsistic Hero -- The "Trickster Hero" -- The Anomic Hero -- The Paranoid Hero -- The Sentimental Sadist -- The Hero as Victim -- PART IV Conclusion -- 18 The Omniscient Author -- The Innocent Reader -- Fiction as a System of Affirmations -- REFERENCES AND NOTES -- APPENDIX A: Additional Analyses -- APPENDIX B: Matrix Transformations -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.