Boom!

Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Anthologies
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Author: Julie Rak ISBN: 9781554589418
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Publication: June 15, 2013
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press Language: English
Author: Julie Rak
ISBN: 9781554589418
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Publication: June 15, 2013
Imprint: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Language: English

Introduction

Identifying the Memoir Industry - Julie Rak

This chapter introduces the memoir boom as an effect of the publishing and bookselling industries, and creates a theory of genre to explain how popular non-fiction reading has become. It argues for taking serioulsy the production, consumption, and reception of popular texts, and it explains why the backlash against memoir has become so virulent.

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Introduction

Identifying the Memoir Industry - Julie Rak

This chapter introduces the memoir boom as an effect of the publishing and bookselling industries, and creates a theory of genre to explain how popular non-fiction reading has become. It argues for taking serioulsy the production, consumption, and reception of popular texts, and it explains why the backlash against memoir has become so virulent.

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