Minor characters have their day : genre and the contemporary literary marketplace /
Jeremy Rosen.
- 1 online resource (278 pages)
- Literature now .
- Literature Now. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: three axes of genre study -- Active readers and flexible forms: the emergence of minor-character elaboration, 1966-1971 -- The real and imaginary politics of minor character elaboration, 1983-2014 -- "An insatiable market" for minor characters: genre in the contemporary literary marketplace -- The logic of characters' virtual lives -- Coda: genre as telescopic method.