Rosen, Jeremy. <br/><br/>
Minor Characters Have Their Day :  Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (278 pages) 
 - Literature Now Series .
 - Literature Now Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780231542401 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Characters and characteristics in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN3411.R67 2016 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.927