Screen LibraryContemporary fiction, celebrity culture, and the market for modernism : fictions of celebrity /
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | London ; New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: |
2023. ©2022 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New horizons in contemporary writing
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| Carrier Form: | 241 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-234) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781350248601 1350248606 1350248568 9781350248564 |
| Index Number: | PR890 |
| CLC: | I106.4 |
| Call Number: | I106.4/M625 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Contemporary fiction, celebrity culture and the market for modernism -- Signature to brand: Martin Amis's negotiations with literary celebrity -- "To invent a literature": Ian McEwan's commercial modernism -- Modernism as postcoloniail inc.: authorizing Salman Rushie -- When the public wants: Kazuo Ishiguro, prize culture, and the art of alienation -- Zadie Smith, inauthenticity, and multicultural modernism -- Marginal literary values, or, how Eimear McBride andd Anna Burns reframe Irish modernism. |