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Minor Characters Have Their Day : Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Literature Now SeriesPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231542401
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Minor Characters Have Their DayDDC classification:
  • 809/.927
LOC classification:
  • PN3411.R67 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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