Active Readers and Flexible Forms
Active Readers and Flexible Forms
The Emergence of Minor-Character Elaboration, 1966–1971
Traces the recent surge in minor-character elaboration to the late 1960s and a set of active reading practices and textual acquisitiveness shared by feminist, anticolonial, poststructuralist, and postmodernist writers. It argues that early forays into the genre by writers like Jean Rhys, John Gardner, and Tom Stoppard reveal a variety of formal permutations and agendas that later writers might inherit.
Keywords: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, Cultural History, Formalism, Postmodernism, Feminism, Postcolonial
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