Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle
Unspeakable Conventionality: The Perversity of the Kindle
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无法形容的传统：Kindle 的反常
DOI：
10.1093/alh/ajab004
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
0.4
通讯作者：
M. Mcgurl
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作者：
M. Mcgurl
亚马逊的崛起对小说意味着什么？本文认为，在将创新的场景从小说的形式转移到其发行的方式和方法时，该公司重新定义了作者身份，即为读者提供良好服务的企业家身份，以及阅读本身作为一种可重复的自我色情护理体验。以这种方式设想，所有的小说都是“类型小说”，包括所谓的文学小说，对亚马逊来说，这只是一种不正当的追求客户满意度的方式。作为一种恰当的重复，类型小说率先界定了小说的当下处境，为当代文学批评提供了一个新的分析重点。
What has the rise of Amazon meant for the novel? This essay argues that in shifting the scene of innovation from the novel’s form to the ways and means of its distribution, the company has redefined authorship as the entrepreneurial provision of good service to readers and reading itself as a repeatable experience of erotic self-care. Conceived in this way, all fiction is “genre fiction,” including so-called literary fiction, which for Amazon is simply one modality of the perverse pursuit of customer satisfaction among others. As an occasion for felicitous repetition, genre fiction takes the lead in defining the situation of the novel now, suggesting a new set of emphases in the critical analysis of the contemporary literary field.