Subject Popular Fiction

📘 Course Title: Popular Fiction

📌 Course Code: ENG-408
📌 Credit Hours: 3 (3-0)

📖 Course Contents

A reader comprising the core texts will be provided to students.

📚 Core Texts

1. And Then There Were None (1939) – Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997) – J. K. Rowling (1965- )
3. The Hobbit (1937) – J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
4. Shutter Island (2003) – Dennis Lehane (1965- )
5. Burnt Shadows (2009) – Kamila Shamsie (1973- )
6. Frankenstein (1818) – Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979) – Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
8. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) – Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
9. Cinder (2012) – Marissa Meyer (1984- )
10. The Diary of a Social Butterfly (2008) – Moni Mohsin (1963- )

📚 Recommended Books

1. Anatol, Giselle L. (2003). Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays. Praeger.
2. Bloom, Clive. (2002). Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900. Palgrave Macmillan.
3. Christie, Agatha. (2011). Agatha Christie: An Autobiography. Harper.
4. Gelder, Ken. (2004). Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field. Routledge.
5. Glover, David & McCracken, Scott. (2012). The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction. Cambridge University Press.
6. Gupta, Suman. (2003). Re-reading Harry Potter. Palgrave Macmillan.
7. Highfield, Roger. (2002). The Science of Harry Potter: How Magic Really Works. Viking.
8. Hinckley, Karen & Barbara Hinckley. (1989). American Best Sellers: A Reader’s Guide to Popular Fiction. Indiana University Press.
9. Hogle, Jerrold E. (2002). The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction. Cambridge University Press.
10. Joosten, Melanie. (2011). Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie: Notes. CAE Book Groups.
11. McCracken, Scott. (1998). Pulp: Reading Popular Fiction. Manchester University Press.
12. Morgan, Janet P. (1950). Agatha Christie: A Biography. Knopf.
13. Nash, Walter. (1990). Language in Popular Fiction. Routledge.
14. Neimark, Anne E. (2012). Mythmaker: The Life of J. R. R. Tolkien, Creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Harcourt Children’s Books.
15. Shapiro, Marc. (2000). J. K. Rowling: The Wizard Behind Harry Potter. St. Martin’s Griffin.
16. Shippey, T. A. (2001). J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. Houghton Mifflin.
17. Most, Glenn W. & Stowe, William W. (Eds.). (1983). The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory.
18. Tolkien, J. R. R. & Beagle, Peter S. (1966). The Tolkien Reader. Ballantine Books.
19. Watt, James. (1999). Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832. Cambridge University Press.