Sinykin Big Fiction

How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-231-55006-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Literature Now

Dan Sinykin explores how changes in the publishing industry have affected fiction, literary form, and what it means to be an author.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sinykin, Dan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Mass Market (I): How Mass-Market Books Changed Publishing
2. Mass Market (II): How the Mass Market Won the World, Lost Its Soul—Then Lost the World
3. Trade (I): How Women Resisted Sexism and Reinvented the Novel
4. Trade (II): How Literary Writers Embraced Genre
5. Nonprofits: How Rebels Found Funding and Rejected New York
6. Independents: How W. W. Norton Stayed Free and Housed the Misfits
Conclusion
Glossary of Publishing Figures
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dan Sinykin is an assistant professor of English at Emory University with a courtesy appointment in quantitative theory and methods. He is the author of American Literature and the Long Downturn: Neoliberal Apocalypse (2020). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, Dissent, and other publications.