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S/LI/146. Post-1970s literature as a consumer product

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DATE:
2003
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This paper examines the way literature has increasing become incorporated into a capitalist way of thinking: literature no longer stands alone, but is a product, like any other. This has a knock-on effect on the way literature is viewed, and taught. Notions of what constitute the 'canon' of English literature are called into question, and genre begins to take precedence over individual works.

 

KEYWORDS: Modern literature, post-1970s literature, canon, consumer, literary genres, genre, En,