John Frow is currently Professor of English at the University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow; he was previously Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne and the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, and has held visiting professorships at the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, Wesleyan University, the University of Chicago, New York University, and Goldsmiths College London. He is the author of Marxism and Literary History (1986), Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (1995), Time and Commodity Culture (1997), Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (with Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison, 1999), Genre (2006), and The Practice of Value (2013). He edited Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader with Meaghan Morris (1993), and with Tony Bennett The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis (2008).

The precision of the distinctions Frow cuts and the originality of the connections he draws make this an important contribution to "sociological poetics", one that brilliantly ruminates on the variable interplay between "formal categor[ies] and particular forms of life" (x-xi).

• Preface 1: Figure 2: Interest 3: Person 4: Type 5: Voice 6: Name 7: Face 8: Body

John Frow is currently Professor of English at the University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow; he was previously Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne and the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, and has held visiting professorships at the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, Wesleyan University, the University of Chicago, New York University, and Goldsmiths College London. He is the author of Marxism and Literary History (1986), Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (1995), Time and Commodity Culture (1997), Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (with Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison, 1999), Genre (2006), and The Practice of Value (2013). He edited Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader with Meaghan Morris (1993), and with Tony Bennett The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis (2008).

The precision of the distinctions Frow cuts and the originality of the connections he draws make this an important contribution to "sociological poetics", one that brilliantly ruminates on the variable interplay between "formal categor[ies] and particular forms of life" (x-xi).

• Preface 1: Figure 2: Interest 3: Person 4: Type 5: Voice 6: Name 7: Face 8: Body

John Frow is currently Professor of English at the University of Sydney and an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow; he was previously Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne and the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, and has held visiting professorships at the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, Wesleyan University, the University of Chicago, New York University, and Goldsmiths College London. He is the author of Marxism and Literary History (1986), Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (1995), Time and Commodity Culture (1997), Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (with Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison, 1999), Genre (2006), and The Practice of Value (2013). He edited Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader with Meaghan Morris (1993), and with Tony Bennett The Sage Handbook of Cultural Analysis (2008).

The precision of the distinctions Frow cuts and the originality of the connections he draws make this an important contribution to "sociological poetics", one that brilliantly ruminates on the variable interplay between "formal categor[ies] and particular forms of life" (x-xi).

• Preface 1: Figure 2: Interest 3: Person 4: Type 5: Voice 6: Name 7: Face 8: Body