Minor characters have their day : genre and the contemporary literary marketplace /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Literature Now.
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Table of 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.