Everything and less, the novel in the age of Amazon, Mark McGurl
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Everything and less, the novel in the age of Amazon, Mark McGurl
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-297) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Everything and less
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1229028552
Responsibility statement
Mark McGurl
Sub title
the novel in the age of Amazon
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
Table of contents
Preface: Bezos as Novelist -- Introduction: Retail Therapy -- 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 -- Afterword: Box In
Target audience
adult
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