Literature and the creative economy / / Sarah Brouillette

• Autore: Brouillette Sarah <1977->
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/0092
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 21st century - History and criticism; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - Economic aspects; Authorship - Economic aspects; Cultural industries; Cultural policy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The creative class and cultural governance -- Work as art, art as life -- The psychology of creativity -- Economy and pathology in Aravind Adiga's The white tiger and Monica Ali's In the kitchen -- Economy and authenticity in Daljit Nagra's Look we have coming to Dover! and Gautam Malkani's Londonstani -- The strange case of the writer-consultant -- Valuing the arts in Ian McEwan's Saturday.
• Sommario/riassunto: For nearly twenty years, social scientists and policy makers have been highly interested in the idea of the creative economy. This book contends that mainstream considerations of the economic and social force of culture, including theories of the creative class and of cognitive and immaterial labor, are indebted to historic conceptions of the art of literary authorship. What's more, it shows how contemporary literature has been involved in and has responded to creative-economy phenomena, including the presentation of artists as models of contentedly flexible and self-managed work, the tre
• Titolo autorizzato: Literature and the creative economy
• ISBN: 0-8047-9243-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826309503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II