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Everything and less : the novel in the age of Amazon / Mark McGurl.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781839763854 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xix, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: London : Verso, 2021.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface: Bezos as novelist -- Introduction: Retail therapy -- Fiction as a service -- What Is multinational literature? Amazon all over the world -- Generic love, or, The realism of romance -- Unspeakable conventionality : the perversity of the Kindle -- World-scaling : literary fiction in the genre system -- Surplus fiction : the undeath of the novel -- Afterword: Inside the box. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Amazon.com (Firm) > History. Electronic publishing. Self-publishing. Fiction > Publishing. Fiction > Authorship. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 808.3 McGur | 31681010253771 | NONFIC | Available | - |
Mark McGurl is the Albert Guérard Professor of Literature at Stanford University. His last book, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing, won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism. He previously worked for The New York Times and The New York Review of Books.
