Making Literature Now Hungerford Amy Yale University Connecticut Paperback
Making Literature Now Hungerford Amy Yale University Connecticut Paperback How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors,…
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Making Literature Now Hungerford Amy Yale University Connecticut Paperback
How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making literature itself come alive. Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible?
She deftly matches the particular human stories of the makers with the impersonal structures through which literary reputation is made. The book shows how various conditions--including gender, education, business dynamics, social networks, money, and the forces of literary tradition--affect the things we can choose, or refuse, to read.Amy Hungerford focuses her discussion on literary bestsellers as well as little-known traditional and digital literature from smaller presses, such as McSweeney's. Ranging from fine-grained ethnography to polemical argument, this book transforms our sense of how and
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