Minor characters have their day : genre and the contemporary literary marketplace /
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Columbia University Press,
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Publisher Address: | New York : |
Publication Dates: | [2016] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Literature Now
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Carrier Form: | x, 265 pages ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-253) and index. |
ISBN: |
9780231177443 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 0231177445 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
Index Number: | PN3411 |
CLC: | I106 |
Call Number: | I106/R813 |
Contents: | Introduction : three axes of genre study -- Active readers and flexible forms : the emergence of minor-character elaboration, 1966-1971 -- The real and imaginary politics of minor-character elaboration, 1983-2014 -- "An insatiable market" for minor characters : genre in the contemporary literary marketplace -- The logic of characters' virtual lives -- Coda : genre as telescopic method -- Appendix : minor-character elaborations since 1966. |