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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Auguscik, Anna

Titel

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

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• Edition Kulturwissenschaft : 132

Auflage

1st ed

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references.
• Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 1. The Booker Prize as Problem under Academic Scrutiny 23 2. Attention and Participants' Perspectives on Literary Interaction 49 3. The Booker and Public Attention: The History of the Booker as a History of Problems 81 4. Leading the Booker Prize into the New Millennium 113 5. Literary Outsiders and Odd Titles: A New Era of the Booker Prize 179 6. 40 Years of Booker Choice: Between "Freshness" and "Literary Magic" 245 7. Beyond "the end of its natural 'front list' life": The Booker and the Afterlife of Novels 311 Conclusion 327 Appendix 335 Works Cited: Academic Criticism 359 Works Cited: Journalistic and Other Sources 367
• 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 analyses the mechanisms by which the Prize both recognises books that trigger debates and itself becomes the object of such debates. Based on case studies of six novels (by Aravind Adiga, Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry, Mark Haddon, DBC Pierre, Zadie Smith) and their attention profiles, this work describes the Booker as a 'problem-driven attention-generating mechanism', the influence of which can only be understood in relation to other participants in literary interaction.
• Issued also in print.
• Anna 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.
• In English.