TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosen,Jeremy
TI  - Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
T2  - Literature Now Series
SN  - 9780231542401
AV  - PN3411.R67 2016 
U1  - 809/.927 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Characters and characteristics in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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