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Everything and less : the novel in the age of Amazon / Mark McGurl.
Loaned to Another Library PN3365 .M297 2021
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGurl, Mark, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amazon.com (Firm).
- Fiction--Authorship.
- Fiction.
- Fiction--Publishing.
- Self-publishing.
- Electronic publishing.
- Amazon.com (Firm)--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2021.
- Summary:
- "In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dynamic scene of literary experimentation in an unlikely location: in the realms of self-publishing created by Amazon. Reclaiming several works of self-published fiction from the abyss of critical disregard, McGurl offers a Copernican revolution in the world of letters: rather than giving central importance to the critically lionized highbrows-Colson Whitehead, Don DeLillo, Elena Ferrante, and Amitav Ghosh, among others-he discovers that their fiction orbits countless unknown authors forging a career through untraditional means"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Fiction as a Service
- 2. What Is Multinational Literature? Amazon All Over the World
- 3. Generic Love, or, The Realism of Romance
- 4. Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle
- 5. World-Scaling: Literary Fiction in the Genre System
- 6. Surplus Fiction: The Undeath of the Novel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-297) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McGurl, Mark, 1966- Everything and less
- ISBN:
- 9781839763854
- 183976385X
- OCLC:
- 1229028552
- Publisher Number:
- 99988749139
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