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Contemporary Fiction, Celebrity Culture, and the Market for Modernism: Fictions of Celebrity (New Horizons in Contemporary Writing) by Carey Mickalites, Bryan Cheyette, Martin Paul Eve is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"Arguing that contemporary celebrity authors like Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Eimear McBride and Anna Burns position their work and public personae within a received modernist canon to claim and monetize its cultural capital in the lucrative market for literary fiction, this book also shows how the corporate conditions of marketing and branding have redefined older models of literary influence and innovation. It contributes to a growing body of criticism focused on contemporary literature as a field in which the formal and stylistic experimentation that came to define a canon of early 20th-century modernism has been renewed, contested, and revised. Other critics have celebrated these renewals, variously arguing that contemporary literature picks up on modernism's unfinished aesthetic revolutions in ways that have expanded the imaginative possibilities for fiction and revived questions of literary autonomy in the wake of postmodern nihilism. While this is a compelling thesis, and one that rightly questions an artificial and problematic periodization that still lingers in academic criticism, those approaches generally fail to address the mate
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- Author
- Carey Mickalites, Bryan Cheyette, Martin Paul Eve
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350248595
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Fiction
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