Everything and Less (eBook)

The Novel in the Age of Amazon

Mark McGurl (Autor)

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2021 | Ebook UK & RoW
336 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-83976-386-1 (ISBN)

Infos

As the story goes: Jeff Bezos left a lucrative job to start something new in Seattle only after a deeply affecting reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day. But if a novel gave usAmazon.com, what has Amazon meant for the novel? In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dynamic scene of cultural experimentation in literature, with a confidence that rivals modernism. Its innovations have little to do with how the novel is written and more to do with how it's distributed online. On the internet, all fiction becomes genre fiction, which is simply another way to predict customer satisfaction. With an eye on the longer history of the novel, this witty, acerbic book tells a story that connects Henry James to E.L. James, Faulkner and Hemingway to contemporary romance, science fiction and fantasy writers. Reclaiming several works of self-published fiction from the gutter of complete critical disregard, it stages a copernican revolution in how we understand the world of letters: it's the stuff of high literature - Colson Whitehead, Don DeLillo, and Amitav Ghosh - that revolve around the star of countless unknown writers trying to forge a career by untraditional means, Adult Baby Diaper Lover erotica being just one fortuitous route. In opening the floodgates of popular literary expression as never before, the Age of Amazon shows a democratic promise, as well as what it means when literary culture becomes corporate culture in the broadbest but also deepest and most troubling sense.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Schlagworte: 50 Shades of Grey • adult diaper erotica • Althusser • amazon • Amazon Publishing • american literary criticism • American Literature • Amitav Ghosh • andrea long chu • auto fiction • autofiction • Auto-fiction • auto theory • auto-theory • autotheory • Avant Garde • Benjamin Lytal • Booker Prize • books about amazon • books about books • books about the internet • bookstores • Brian Massumi • Charles Altieri • chick-lit books • Colson Whitehead • conspiracy • Contemporary literature • contemporary writing • cruel optimism • Derrida • Don DeLillo • eBooks • Elena Ferrante • Elif Batuman • epic sci-fi • fan fic literary criticism • Foucault • Fred Jameson • funny books • global literature • high and low culture • High Culture • history of books • History of Literature • History of the novel • how the internet changes writing • I Love Dick • intelligent books • internet and books • internet novel • Jennifer L. Fleissner • Lauren Berlant • Literature • London Review of Books • Los Angelas Review of Books • Low Culture • MacKenzie Bezos • Marxist literary criticism • Marxist literature • MFA books • Miranda July • modern literary criticism • Modern Literature • n+1 • National Book Award • new avant garde • New York Review of Books • New York Times Book Review • Nobel Prize in literature • novel advice • novel as artwork • Novels • old baby diaper erotica • Our Aesthetic Categories • Paris Review • Pomo • Postmodernism • Post-Modernism • Postmodern literary criticism • Post-War • Publishing • publishing industry • Pulitzer Prize • Romance • self-published literature • Self-Publishing • serious chick-lit • Sianne Ngai • The Idiot • The Internet • the novel as a work of art • Theory of the Gimmick • The Possessed • ugly feelings • vampire fan fic • Walter Benjamin • writing and the internet • Zany, Cute, Interesting
• ISBN-10: 1-83976-386-8 / 1839763868
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-386-1 / 9781839763861