Beschreibung:
The Novel as Network: Forms, Ideas, Commodities engages with the contemporary Anglophone novel and its derivatives and by-products such as graphic novels, comics, podcasts, and Quality TV. This collection investigates the meaning of the novel in the larger system of contemporary media production and (post-)print culture, viewing the novel through the lens of actor network theory as a node in the novel network. Chapters underscore the deep interconnection between all the aspects of the novel, between the novel as a (literary) form, as an idea, and as a commodity. Bringing together experts from American, British, and Postcolonial Studies, as well as Book, Publishing, and Media Studies, this collection offers a new vantage point to view the novel in its multifaceted expressions today.
The Novel as Network: Forms, Ideas, Commodities engages with the contemporary Anglophone novel and its derivatives and by-products such as graphic novels, comics, podcasts, and Quality TV. This collection investigates the meaning of the novel in the larger system of contemporary media production and (post-)print culture, viewing the novel through the lens of actor network theory as a node in the novel network. Chapters underscore the deep interconnection between all the aspects of the novel, between the novel as a (literary) form, as an idea, and as a commodity. Bringing together experts from American, British, and Postcolonial Studies, as well as Book, Publishing, and Media Studies, this collection offers a new vantage point to view the novel in its multifaceted expressions today.
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Novel as Network, Tim Lanzendörfer and Corinna Norrick-Rühl.- Chapter 2: Introduction: Novel Forms, Tim Lanzendörfer.- Chapter 3: The Novel’s Novelty Now, Mathias Nilges.- Chapter 4: The Cosmopolitan Value of the Multicultural Novel, Kristian Shaw.- Chapter 5: The Novel Network and the Work of Genre, Tim Lanzendörfer.- Chapter 6: Can a Novel Contain a Comic? Graphic Nerd Ecology in Contemporary US Fiction, Christopher Pizzino.- Chapter 7: Introduction: Novel Ideas, Tim Lanzendörfer and Corinna Norrick-Rühl.- Chapter 8: Speculative Nostalgia and Media of the New Intersectional Left: My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Stephen Shapiro.- Chapter 9: From Comic to Graphic and from Book to Novel: Sandman’s Invisible Authors and the Quest for Literariness, Julia Round.- Chapter 10: Listening to the Literary: On the Novelistic Poetics of the Podcast, Patrick Gill.- Chapter 11: The Video Game Novel: Story-World Narratives, Novelization, and the Contemporary Novel’s Network, Tamer Thabet and Tim Lanzendörfer.- Chapter 12: Introduction: Novel Commodities, Corinna Norrick-Rühl.- Chapter 13: Locating the Goods in Contemporary Literary Culture: Between the Book and the Archive, Jim Collins.- Chapter 14: Auratic Facsimile: The Print Novel in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Julia Panko.- Chapter 15: Sensing the Novel/Seeing the Book/Selling the Goods, Claire Squires.- Chapter 16: Shakespeare Novelized: Hogarth, Symbolic Capital, and the Literary Market, Jeremy Rosen.- Chapter 17: Reading the Small American Novel: The Aesthetic Agency of the Short Book in the Modern Literary Marketplace, Alexander Starre.
