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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- Novel Competition
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- EAN
- 9781609389390
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- ISBN
- 9781609389390
- Title
- Novel Competition
- Subtitle
- American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965-1999
- Release Year
- 2024
- Release Date
- 05/31/2024
- Topic
- Business & Finance
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10
1609389395
ISBN-13
9781609389390
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3064182649
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
254 Pages
Publication Name
Novel Competition : American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965-1999
Language
English
Subject
Publishing, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2024
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Series
New American Canon Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2023-026383
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20231031
Reviews
" Novel Competition is a beautifully written institutional history of the literary novel in the United States from 1965 to 1999. Placing the novel in a larger cultural field--in competition with journalism, popular music, and films for cultural prestige--Brier illuminates not only novels, but their readers, critics, editors, publishers, and booksellers."--Erin A. Smith, University of Texas at Dallas, " Novel Competition confronts a fascinating and important subject: an examination of how the novel came to matter differently over the last third of the twentieth century. This decline is something that scholars of the novel have bemoaned for some time, and Brier offers a useful approach to making sense of it without resorting to well-trod and over-simplified answers. It is an engaging and important book."--Emily Johansen, author, Beyond Safety: Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and the Neoliberal Contemporary Life, "As a longtime Evan Brier fan, I've been eagerly waiting this book, his account of the American novel's response to its declining fortunes. Brier dazzles with a virtuosic reading of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood that takes us through the culture of The New Yorker , the Kansas literati, and the first stirrings of publishing's conglomeration. He delivers an extraordinary investigation into Toni Morrison's career as an editor--culminating in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters --and her publication of The Black Book . We follow Philip Roth to Eastern Europe and Cynthia Ozick's and Saul Bellow's characters into diaspora. Minimalism, rock and roll, New Hollywood, Rushdie's fatwa, the American West--an astounding account of Larry McMurtry's career--the memoir boom. Brier touches it all. Brier quietly transcends the limitations of dominant norms in the practices of literary history and the sociology of literature to give us an nth-dimensional view of American literature since 1965: how the novel became residual. He tells us what it means to believe--or disbelieve--in the power of fiction. It's no less than thrilling."--Dan Sinykin, author, Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
Dewey Decimal
813/.5409
Synopsis
Novel Competition describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. As corporations took over the book business, Hollywood movies, popular music, and other forms of mass-produced culture competed with novels as never before for a form of prestige that had mostly been attached to novels in previous decades. This book brings to light the story of the novel's perceived decline and the surprising ways American fiction transformed in its wake., Novel Competition describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. As corporations took over the book business, Hollywood movies, popular music, and other forms of mass-produced culture competed with novels as never before for a form of prestige that had mostly been attached to novels in previous decades. In the context of this competition, developments like the emergence of Rolling Stone magazine, regional publishers, Black studies programs, and "New Hollywood" became key events in the life of the American novel. Novels by Truman Capote, Ann Beattie, Toni Cade Bambara, Cynthia Ozick, and Larry McMurtry--among many others--are recast as prescient reports on, and formal responses to, a world suddenly less hospitable to old claims about the novel's value. This book brings to light the story of the novel's perceived decline and the surprising ways American fiction transformed in its wake.
LC Classification Number
PS379.B6746 2024
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