Rosen Minor Characters Have Their Day

Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-54240-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Literature Now

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosen, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Three Axes of Genre Study
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

Über Autor(innen)

Rosen Jeremy:
Reader #2 -- Jeremy Rosen is assistant professor of English at the University of Utah. He is the author of Minor Characters Have Their Day: Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace (Columbia University Press, 2016). I selected him for his work on contemporary fiction.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.