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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Document, Government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah Brouillette |
ISBN: | 9780804792431 0804792437 |
OCLC Number: | 1198930100 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
Contents: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Creative Class and Cultural Governance -- 2. Work as Art / Art as Life -- 3. The Psychology of Creativity -- 4. Economy and Pathology in Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger and Monica Ali's In the Kitchen -- 5. Economy and Authenticity in Daljit Nagra's Look We Have Coming to Dover! and Gautam Malkani's Londonstani -- 6. The Strange Case of the Writer-Consultant -- 7. Valuing the Arts in Ian McEwan's Saturday -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Notes |
Responsibility: | Sarah Brouillette. |
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"Sarah Brouillete's Literature and the Creative Economy is a pathbreaking work that does not simply critique the idea of the creative economy, but rather shows us how it actually works-most innovatively, in the changes it has produced in the institution of literature itself." -- Nicholas Brown * University of Illinois at Chicago * "Brouillette has written what will quickly become the definitive account of contemporary British literature-and of the now pandemic effort to monetize creativity. Over the last twenty years, management gurus, policy wonks, and academics of all stripes have set out to calculate the value of self-expression, both to local and national economies and the legions of precarious workers now encouraged to style themselves self-promoting entrepreneurs. Poets and novelists have made similar if far more complex calculations, argues Brouillette's brilliant study, even as they've kept a melancholy eye fixed on the slow but seemingly unstoppable erosion of their art's autonomy." -- Michael Szalay * University of California, Irvine * Read more...


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- contemporary literature.
- creative economy.
- creative industries.
- cultural policy.
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- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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