Everything and less : the novel in the age of Amazon / Mark McGurl.
| Author/creator | McGurl, Mark, 1966- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2021. |
| Copyright Date | ©2021 |
| Description | xix, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-297) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: McGurl, Mark, 1966- Everything and less London ; New York : Verso, 2021 9781839763878 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021027274 |
| ISBN | 9781839763854 hardcover |
| ISBN | 183976385X hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN3365 .M297 2021 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |