Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
The MST English Quarterly
Author: Everything and Less
Author: Mark McGurlPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 183976385X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Best Book of Fall (Esquire) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (Lit Hub) What Has Happened to Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism? Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The “Everything Store” has not just transformed how we buy books; it has affected what we buy, and even what we read. In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl explores this new world where writing is no longer categorized as high or lowbrow, literature or popular fiction. Charting a course spanning from Henry James to E. L. James, McGurl shows that contemporary writing has less to do with writing per se than with the manner of its distribution. This consumerist logic—if you like this, you might also like ...—has reorganized the fiction universe so that literary prize-winners sit alongside fantasy, romance, fan fiction, and the infinite list of hybrid genres and self-published works. This is an innovation to be cautiously celebrated. Amazon’s platform is not just a retail juggernaut but an aesthetic experiment driven by an unseen algorithm rivaling in the depths of its effects any major cultural shift in history. Here all fiction is genre fiction, and the niches range from the categories of crime and science fiction to the more refined interests of Adult Baby Diaper Lover erotica. Everything and Less is a hilarious and insightful map of both the commanding heights and sordid depths of fiction, past and present, that opens up an arresting conversation about why it is we read and write fiction in the first place.
The Missouri Dental Journal
Author: Homer JuddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dentistry
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The Quarterly Review
Author: William GiffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The British Quarterly Review
Author: The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review
Author: The Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: Grammatical Complexity in Academic English
Author: Douglas BiberPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110700926X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Using corpus-based analyses, the book challenges widely held beliefs about grammatical complexity, academic writing, and linguistic change in written English.
Quarterly Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, for the Quarter Ending ...
Author: Kansas. State Board of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Quarter Notes and Bank Notes
Author: Frederic M. SchererPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691116211
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Examines the diversity of composers' economic aspirations, the strategies through which they pursued success, the burgeoning music publishing industry, and the emergence of copyright protection. It concludes by drawing some parallels to the economic state of music composition in 2003.