Selling the Story - Transaction and Narrative Value in Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola

Every writer is a player in the marketplace for literature. Jonathan Paine locates the economics ingrained within the stories themselves, showing how the business of literature affects even storytelling devices such as genre, plot, and repetition. In this new model of criticism, the text is a record of its author's sales pitch.

About the author

Jonathan Paine is Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and Senior Adviser and former Managing Director at the investment bank Rothschild & Co.

Summary

Every writer is a player in the marketplace for literature. Jonathan Paine locates the economics ingrained within the stories themselves, showing how the business of literature affects even storytelling devices such as genre, plot, and repetition. In this new model of criticism, the text is a record of its author’s sales pitch.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Paine
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780674988439
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98843-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Publishing, Literary reference works