Prizing Debate: The Fourth Decade of the Booker Prize and the Contemporary Novel in the UK

ISBN-13: 9783837638530 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 270 str.

Anna Auguscik

Opis

This book offers a study of the literary marketplace in the early 2000s. Focusing on the Man Booker Prize and its impact on a novel's media attention, Anna Auguscik analyzes the mechanisms by which the prize recognizes books triggering debates, in addition to how it itself becomes the object of such debates. Based on case studies of six novels and their attention profiles (Aravind Adiga, Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry, Mark Haddon, DBC Pierre, and Zadie Smith), the book describes the Booker as a "problem-driven attention-generating mechanism" whose influence can only be understood in relation to other participants in literary interaction.

O autorze

Auguscik, AnnaAnna Auguscik teaches English Literature at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. She is a postdoctoral fellow in the Fiction Meets Science research group. Her research interests include the novel in the literary marketplace, the history and current state of reviewing and criticism, and the relationship between literature and science.