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03449aam a2200517 i 4500 001 B38CD6EECFA311E9B77D544F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190905010153 008 190304t20192019mau b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2019008949 020 $a 0674988434 020 $a 9780674988439 035 $a (OCoLC)1090014796 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d HLS $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN161 $b .P26 2019 082 00 $a 809.3/034 $2 23 100 1 $a Paine, Jonathan $e author. 245 10 $a Selling the story : $b transaction and narrative value in Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola / $c Jonathan Paine. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a viii, 320 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a Does the need to write for money affect what is written? Selling the Story addresses the issue of how the business of literature influences its very composition. Authors participate in a marketplace in which the reader is the target of a literary "sell." Using as examples Balzac, Dostoevsky, and Zola, Jonathan Paine shows how major works reflect their authors' differing "point of sale" perspectives on reader response and the market for literature. Uncovering this process opens a new role for economic criticism and offers new and original readings of canonical texts. Paine contends that "selling the story" to the reader, both literally and figuratively, is a genuine transaction which can be analyzed in economic terms. An author's choice of transaction type - prospectus, auction or speculation - can reveal much about his approach to the creation of literary value. Even an author's fictional representation of transactions in novels can show distinct and differentiated approaches to the business of literature. This "point-of-sale" analysis represents a distinctive new departure in economic criticism.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The economics of narrative -- Balzac: narrative as business -- Dostoevsky: who buys the story? -- Zola: the business of narrative. 600 10 $a Balzac, HonoreÌ de, $d 1799-1850 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, $d 1821-1881 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Zola, EÌmile, $d 1840-1902 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Balzac, HonoreÌ de, $d 1799-1850. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00038270 600 17 $a Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, $d 1821-1881. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00032733 600 17 $a Zola, EÌmile, $d 1840-1902. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00032376 650 0 $a Authorship $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Economics and literature $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Serialized fiction $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Publishers and publishing $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a Authorship $x Marketing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00822460 650 7 $a Economics and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00902245 650 7 $a Publishers and publishing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01083463 650 7 $a Serialized fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01113136 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017021106.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190905043456.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B38CD6EECFA311E9B77D544F97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search