Prizing Debate : : The Fourth Decade of the Booker Prize and the Contemporary Novel in the UK / / Anna Auguscik.

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• VerfasserIn: Auguscik, Anna,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Kulturwissenschaft ; 132
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

This book offers a study of the literary marketplace in the early 2000s. Focusing on the Man Booker Prize and its impact on a novel's media attention, Anna Auguscik analyses the mechanisms by which the Prize both recognises books that trigger debates and itself becomes the object of such debates. Based on case studies of six novels (by Aravind Adiga, Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry, Mark Haddon, DBC Pierre, Zadie Smith) and their attention profiles, this work describes the Booker as a 'problem-driven attention-generating mechanism', the influence of which can only be understood in relation to other participants in literary interaction.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Contexts, or Debating the Prize -- 1. The Booker Prize as Problem under Academic Scrutiny -- 2. Attention and Participants' Perspectives on Literary Interaction -- 3. The Booker and Public Attention: The History of the Booker as a History of Problems -- Part II: Case Studies, or Prizing Debate -- 4. Leading the Booker Prize into the New Millennium -- 5. Literary Outsiders and Odd Titles: A New Era of the Booker Prize -- 6. 40 Years of Booker Choice: Between "Freshness" and "Literary Magic" -- 7. Beyond "the end of its natural 'front list' life": The Booker and the Afterlife of Novels -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Works Cited: Academic Criticism -- Works Cited: Journalistic and Other Sources