Minor Characters Have Their Day : Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace.
Rosen, Jeremy.
Minor Characters Have Their Day : Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (278 pages) - Literature Now Series . - Literature Now Series .
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Active Readers and Flexible Forms: The Emergence of Minor-Character Elaboration, 1966-1971 -- 2. The Real and Imaginary Politics of Minor-Character Elaboration, 1983-2014 -- 3. "An Insatiable Market" for Minor Characters: Genre in the Contemporary Literary Marketplace -- 4. The Logic of Characters' Virtual Lives -- Coda: Genre as Telescopic Method -- Appendix: Minor-Character Elaborations Since 1966 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Jeremy Rosen traces the recent surge books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new work. A genre that sought to recover the voices of marginalized individuals and groups has begun to embody the neoliberal commitments of subjective experience, individual expression, and agency.
9780231542401
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Electronic books.
PN3411.R67 2016
809/.927
Minor Characters Have Their Day : Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (278 pages) - Literature Now Series . - Literature Now Series .
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Active Readers and Flexible Forms: The Emergence of Minor-Character Elaboration, 1966-1971 -- 2. The Real and Imaginary Politics of Minor-Character Elaboration, 1983-2014 -- 3. "An Insatiable Market" for Minor Characters: Genre in the Contemporary Literary Marketplace -- 4. The Logic of Characters' Virtual Lives -- Coda: Genre as Telescopic Method -- Appendix: Minor-Character Elaborations Since 1966 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Jeremy Rosen traces the recent surge books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new work. A genre that sought to recover the voices of marginalized individuals and groups has begun to embody the neoliberal commitments of subjective experience, individual expression, and agency.
9780231542401
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Electronic books.
PN3411.R67 2016
809/.927