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- Book Title
- The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction
- Publication Date
- 2019-07-18
- ISBN
- 9781108499569
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1108499562
ISBN-13
9781108499569
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038796473
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
316 Pages
Publication Name
Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Subject
Publishing, American / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Series
Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Reviews
'The most striking aspect of Crosthwaite's latest monograph is the delicate balancing of complex interpretations of the relationship between fiction and the market ... The result of Crosthwaite's success in negotiating this balance is that Market Logics is an attractive and engaging read for both newcomers to the economic humanities and experts alike ... As a whole, Market Logics appeals to both ends of the academic spectrum, and excels in providing rigorous criticism ... without excluding newer scholars from its argumentative process.' Amy Bride, U.S. Studies Online, '... an innovative contribution to an increasingly vibrant field of research ... It must be one of the study's most impressive aspects that it brings together such a wide array of influences, and with such apparent ease, not only describing but ultimately practicing the meaning of transdisciplinary inquiry.' Caroline Koegler, C21 Literature: Journal of Twenty-First-Century Writings, 'Paul Crosthwaite engages deeply and thoughtfully with the fields of economics and economic history to produce a study that is genuinely interdisciplinary in scope. The book reconfigures economic concepts as formal strategies to great effect, generating highly original pairings and readings that are both insightful and persuasive. The book is superbly polished in its execution and a pleasure to read.' Janice Ho, University of Colorado, '... ambitious, exciting, and engaging effort that make substantial scholarly contributions to unpacking the representational challenges for the novel in our present moment of finance capitalism ... Across such a richly researched book, Crosthwaite is highly sensitive to the needs of the reader ... deeply rewarding work.' Andrew Rowcroft, Textual Practice, ...an exemplary work of literary historiography that offers a sophisticated account of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Anglo-American literary culture.... a compelling and highly readable account of the complicated relationship between financialization, the publishing industry, authorship, and the novel in the final decades of the twentieth century and the opening decades of the twenty-first ... Crosthwaite's book is an astute historicizing of the contemporary field of literary fiction that is at once expansive and detailed, broad and nuanced. There is a great deal that will be of value here to scholars interested in the intersection of contemporary literary theory with the material conditions of the publishing industry. And by bringing the latter to bear on the former, Crosthwaite has made a significant contribution to our understanding of both.' Hamilton Carroll, American Literary History
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
823.9209
Table Of Content
Introduction: neoliberalism, financialization, and the contemporary literary marketplace; Part I. The Emergence of Market Metafiction: 1. Market metafiction and the varieties of postmodernism; Part II. The Phantasmagorias of Contemporary Finance: 2. Trading in the as if: fiduciary exchangeability and supernatural financial fiction; 3. 'The occult logic of 'market forces'': Iain Sinclair's post-Big Bang London; Part III. The Market Knows: 4. The price is right: market epistemology, narrative totality, and the 'big novel'; 5. Fully reflecting: knowing the mind of the market in DeLillo and Kunzru; 6. Putting everything on the table: markets and material conditions in twenty-first-century fiction; 7. Between autonomy and heteronomy: exchanging capital in Zink, Cohen, and Heti; Coda: basic income, or, why Barbara Browning's The Gift is not a gift.
Synopsis
This book shows how interrelated shifts in the global financial system and the global publishing industry have transformed the production of contemporary fiction in Britain and the USA. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers working in twenty-first-century literary studies, especially scholars of contemporary British and American fiction., In the twenty-first century, leading publishers are under intense pressure from their conglomerate owners and shareholders to generate growth and profits. This book shows how these pressures have transformed the contemporary novel. Paul Crosthwaite argues that recent British and American authors have internalized the market logics of the financial sector and book trade, resulting in the production of works of 'market metafiction' in which authors reflect obsessively on their writing's positioning in the literary marketplace. The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction reveals the entanglement of fictional narrative and market dynamics to be the central phenomenon of contemporary literary culture. It engages with work by key authors including Iain Sinclair, Don DeLillo, Kathy Acker, Bret Easton Ellis, Chris Kraus, Percival Everett, David Foster Wallace, Colson Whitehead, Anne Billson, Hari Kunzru, Barbara Browning, Teju Cole, Ben Lerner, Tao Lin, Nell Zink, Joshua Cohen, Sheila Heti, and Garth Risk Hallberg.
LC Classification Number
PR890
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