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Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
Jeremy Rosen
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Description for Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 512.
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 a compelling new approach to genre study and contemporary fiction. Focusing on the booming genre of books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new works, Jeremy Rosen makes broader claims about the state of contemporary fiction, the strategies of the publishing industry over recent decades, and the ... Read more
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 a compelling new approach to genre study and contemporary fiction. Focusing on the booming genre of books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new works, Jeremy Rosen makes broader claims about the state of contemporary fiction, the strategies of the publishing industry over recent decades, and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Literature Now
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231177443
SKU
V9780231177443
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About Jeremy Rosen
Jeremy Rosen is an assistant professor of English at the University of Utah. His work has been published in New Literary History, Contemporary Literature, and Post45.
Reviews for Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
Jeremy Rosen's book sheds light on two complex and entwined features of the contemporary literary system: the growing commercial and symbolic importance of genre fiction and the proliferation of novels whose heroes are retooled versions of other novels' minor characters. Moving deftly between readings of individual works and arguments in sociological theory, Rosen succeeds in leveraging the genre of minor-character ... Read more