What does it mean to think of the rise of Amazon.com as an event in contemporary literary history... more What does it mean to think of the rise of Amazon.com as an event in contemporary literary history? This essay analyzes the literary practices and programs " organic " to the Amazon digital ecology, including Kindle Direct Publishing, and then asks how the entrepre-neurial logic, ethos, and temporality of " customer service " might be taken as the dominant logic of contemporary fiction as such.
“Of the many, many thousands of novels and stories published in English in the twentieth century,... more “Of the many, many thousands of novels and stories published in English in the twentieth century, which group of several hundred would represent the most reasonable, interesting, and useful subset of the whole?” Thus begins the latest Pamphlet of the Literary Lab, in which Mark Algee-Hewitt and Mark McGurl sketch out a broad, ambitious map of modern narrative in English. Laying bare the disparate systems of evaluation whose interactions define our objects of study, "Between Canon and Corpus" charts the inner dynamic of the 20th-century literary field in a newly sophisticated way. Combining network theory, book history, and literary sociology, Algee-Hewitt’s and McGurl’s research marks the Literary Lab’s first attempt to come to terms with the literary field as a unified, internally differentiated system: a line of inquiry to which we will devote increasing attention in the years to come.
.n The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction... more .n The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, assert-ing that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the ...
'2 INTRODUCTION way of thinking about this genre that emerged in the English-speaking wo... more '2 INTRODUCTION way of thinking about this genre that emerged in the English-speaking world toward the end of the nineteenth century and found its most persua-sive spokesman in Eliot's admired expatriate example, Henry James. Working, in turn, with precedents set in ...
What does it mean to think of the rise of Amazon.com as an event in contemporary literary history... more What does it mean to think of the rise of Amazon.com as an event in contemporary literary history? This essay analyzes the literary practices and programs " organic " to the Amazon digital ecology, including Kindle Direct Publishing, and then asks how the entrepre-neurial logic, ethos, and temporality of " customer service " might be taken as the dominant logic of contemporary fiction as such.
“Of the many, many thousands of novels and stories published in English in the twentieth century,... more “Of the many, many thousands of novels and stories published in English in the twentieth century, which group of several hundred would represent the most reasonable, interesting, and useful subset of the whole?” Thus begins the latest Pamphlet of the Literary Lab, in which Mark Algee-Hewitt and Mark McGurl sketch out a broad, ambitious map of modern narrative in English. Laying bare the disparate systems of evaluation whose interactions define our objects of study, "Between Canon and Corpus" charts the inner dynamic of the 20th-century literary field in a newly sophisticated way. Combining network theory, book history, and literary sociology, Algee-Hewitt’s and McGurl’s research marks the Literary Lab’s first attempt to come to terms with the literary field as a unified, internally differentiated system: a line of inquiry to which we will devote increasing attention in the years to come.
.n The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction... more .n The Program Era, Mark McGurl offers a fundamental reinterpretation of postwar American fiction, assert-ing that it can be properly understood only in relation to the rise of mass higher education and the creative writing program. McGurl asks both how the patronage of the ...
'2 INTRODUCTION way of thinking about this genre that emerged in the English-speaking wo... more '2 INTRODUCTION way of thinking about this genre that emerged in the English-speaking world toward the end of the nineteenth century and found its most persua-sive spokesman in Eliot's admired expatriate example, Henry James. Working, in turn, with precedents set in ...
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