Prizing Debate : : The Fourth Decade of the Booker Prize and the Contemporary Novel in the UK / / Anna Auguscik.
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 debate...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edition Kulturwissenschaft ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
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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