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

Anna Auguscik

Published by transcript Verlag 2017

Prizing Debate

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

Anna Auguscik

Volume 132 in the series Edition Kulturwissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839438534

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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.

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Part I: Contexts, or Debating the Prize
1. The Booker Prize as Problem under Academic Scrutiny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Attention and Participants’ Perspectives on Literary Interaction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
3. The Booker and Public Attention: The History of the Booker as a History of Problems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
Part II: Case Studies, or Prizing Debate
4. Leading the Booker Prize into the New Millennium Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
5. Literary Outsiders and Odd Titles: A New Era of the Booker Prize Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
6. 40 Years of Booker Choice: Between “Freshness” and “Literary Magic” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
7. Beyond “the end of its natural ‘front list’ life”: The Booker and the Afterlife of Novels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
Works Cited: Academic Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Works Cited: Journalistic and Other Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 400
Keywords: Fiction; United Kingdom; Book Market; Literary Prize; Reviewing; Literary Studies; Literature; British Studies; General Literature Studies; Sociology of Art; Cultural Studies

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Published: June 27, 2017
ISBN: 9783839438534