Literature and the creative economy / Sarah Brouillette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brouillette, Sarah, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--21st century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Economic aspects.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Authorship--Economic aspects.

Authorship.

Cultural industries.

Cultural policy.

Physical Description:

ix, 238 : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]

Summary:

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 forces 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 treatment of training in and exposure to art as a pathway to social inclusion, the use of culture and cultural institutions to increase property values, and support for cultural diversity as a means of growing cultural markets. Taking a sociological approach to literary criticism, Brouillette interprets major works of contemporary fiction by Monica Ali, Aravind Adiga, Daljit Nagra, and Ian McEwan alongside government policy, social science, and theoretical explorations of creative work and immaterial labor. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804789486

0804789487

OCLC:

853313640