LEADER 03853nam 2200661 450 001 9910466185003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54240-2 024 7 $a10.7312/rose17744 035 $a(CKB)3710000000858511 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001678352 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16487761 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001678352 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15015458 035 $a(PQKB)10565553 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16475834 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15015576 035 $a(PQKB)23794581 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4682536 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001724075 035 $a(DE-B1597)479849 035 $a(OCoLC)979746052 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231542401 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4682536 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11268103 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL960368 035 $a(OCoLC)959148892 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000858511 100 $a20160401h20162016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMinor characters have their day $egenre and the contemporary literary marketplace /$fJeremy Rosen 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (278 pages) 225 1 $aLiterature now 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-231-17744-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aHow do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, Minor Characters Have Their Day offers a compelling new approach to genre study and contemporary fiction. Focusing on the booming genre of books that transform minor characters from canonical literary texts into the protagonists of new works, Jeremy Rosen makes broader claims about the state of contemporary fiction, the strategies of the publishing industry over recent decades, and the function of literary characters.Rosen traces the recent surge in "minor-character elaboration" to the late 1960s and works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. These early examples often recover the voices of marginalized individuals and groups. As the genre has exploded between the 1980s and the present, with novels about Ahab's wife, Huck Finn's father, and Mr. Dalloway, it has begun to embody the neoliberal commitments of subjective experience, individual expression, and agency. Eventually, large-scale publishers capitalized on the genre as a way to appeal to educated audiences aware of the prestige of the classics and to draw in identity-based niche markets. Rosen's conclusion ties the understudied evolution of minor-character elaboration to the theory of literary character. 410 0$aLiterature Now. 606 $aCharacters and characteristics in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCharacters and characteristics in literature. 676 $a809/.927 686 $aHN 1101$2rvk 700 $aRosen$b Jeremy$01037534 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466185003321 996 $aMinor characters have their day$92458571 997 $aUNINA