TY - BOOK AU - Rosen,Jeremy TI - Minor characters have their day: genre and the contemporary literary marketplace T2 - Literature now AV - PN3411 .R67 2016 U1 - 809/.927 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Characters and characteristics in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: three axes of genre study -- Active readers and flexible forms: the emergence of minor-character elaboration, 1966-1971 -- The real and imaginary politics of minor character elaboration, 1983-2014 -- "An insatiable market" for minor characters: genre in the contemporary literary marketplace -- The logic of characters' virtual lives -- Coda: genre as telescopic method UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4682536 ER -