Selling the story : transaction and narrative value in Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola / Jonathan Paine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paine, Jonathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zola, Émile, 1840-1902--Criticism and interpretation.

Zola, Émile.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881--Criticism and interpretation.

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor.

Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850--Criticism and interpretation.

Balzac, Honoré de.

Serialized fiction--History and criticism.

Serialized fiction.

Authorship--Marketing--History--19th century.

Authorship.

Economics and literature--History--19th century.

Economics and literature.

Publishers and publishing--History--19th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 337 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Every writer is a player in the marketplace for literature. Jonathan Paine locates the economics ingrained within the stories themselves, showing how the business of literature affects even storytelling devices such as genre, plot, and repetition. In this new model of criticism, the text is a record of its author's sales pitch.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Notes on Citation

J'ai l'espoir de devenir riche à coups de romans

Introduction: The Economics of Narrative

1. Balzac: Narrative as Business

2. Dostoevsky: Who Buys the Story?

3. Zola: The Business of Narrative

Conclusion: Accounts

Appendix A: Serialisation of The Brothers Karamazov

Appendix B: The Thirty-Eight Retellings of the Murder of Fedor Karamazov

Notes

Acknowledgements

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-310) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780674243040

0674243048

9780674243033

067424303X

OCLC:

1105988866