Minor Characters Have Their Day : : Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace / / Jeremy Rosen.
How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, Minor Characters Have Their Day offers...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literature Now
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Three Axes of Genre Study
- Chapter One. Active Readers and Flexible Forms: The Emergence of Minor-Character Elaboration, 1966-1971
- Chapter Two. The Real and Imaginary Politics of Minor-Character Elaboration, 1983-2014
- Chapter Three. "An Insatiable Market" for Minor Characters: Genre in the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
- Chapter Four. The Logic of Characters' Virtual Lives
- Coda. Genre as Telescopic Method
- Appendix. Minor-Character Elaborations since 1966
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index