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- Title
An Insatiable Market for Minor Characters: Genre in the Contemporary Literary Marketplace.
- Authors
Rosen, Jeremy
- Abstract
This essay analyzes the functioning of minor-character elaboration genre in the contemporary literary marketplace. Topics discussed are the influence of the mergers and acquisitions in the publishing industry in the promotion of minor-character elaborations, the sociopolitical and literary-cultural implications of marketplace transformations, and the impact of political orientations of minor-character elaborations on demographics.
- Subjects
PUBLISHING; ESSAYS; LITERARY characters; 21ST century art; MARKETPLACE of ideas theory (Communication); LITERARY criticism; LITERARY style
- Publication
New Literary History, 2015, Vol 46, Issue 1, p143
- ISSN
0028-6087
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/nlh.2015.0001