Making Literature Now (Post*45)

Amy Hungerford

ISBN 10: 0804799407 / ISBN 13: 9780804799409

Published by Stanford University Press, 2016

About this Item

Series: Post*45. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 326. . 2016. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9780804799409

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Literature Now (Post*45)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804799407
• ISBN 13: 9780804799409
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

How does new writing emerge and find readers today? Why does one writer's work become famous while another's remains invisible? Making Literature Now tells the stories of the creators, editors, readers, and critics who make their living by making literature itself come alive. 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. She deftly matches the particular human stories of the makers with the impersonal structures through which literary reputation is made. Ranging from fine-grained ethnography to polemical argument, this book transforms our sense of how and why new literature appears―and disappears―in contemporary American culture.

About the Author

Amy Hungerford is Dean of the Humanities and Professor of English at Yale University.