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  title info:
    title: Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture
  name:
    name part: Weber, Millicent.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 272 p. 11 illus. online resource.
  abstract: There has been a proliferation of literary festivals in recent decades, with more than 450 held annually in the UK and Australia alone. These festivals operate as tastemakers shaping cultural consumption; as educational and policy projects; as instantiations, representations, and celebrations of literary communities; and as cultural products in their own right. As such they strongly influence how literary culture is produced, circulates and is experienced by readers in the twenty-first century. This book explores how audiences engage with literary festivals, and analyses these festivals' relationship to local and digital literary communities, to the creative industries focus of contemporary cultural policy, and to the broader literary field. The relationship between literary festivals and these configuring forces is illustrated with in-depth case studies of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Port Eliot Festival, the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Emerging Writers' Festival, and the Clunes Booktown Festival. Building on interviews with audiences and staff, contextualised by a large-scale online survey of literary festival audiences from around the world, this book investigates these festivals' social, cultural, commercial, and political operation. In doing so, this book critically orients scholarly investigation of literary festivals with respect to the complex and contested terrain of contemporary book culture. .
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Recognising Literary Festivals -- 3. Patterns of Attendance and Experience -- 4. Online and Onsite: Intersections in Embodied and Digital Engagement -- 5. Festival as Policy Vehicle: Creative Industries, Creative Cities and the Creative Class -- 6. Festival as Field: Literary Festivals as Instantiations of Larger Cultural Spaces -- 7. Conclusion: Rules of the Game.
  note: by Millicent Weber.
  subject:
    topic: Books-History
  subject:
    topic: British literature
  subject:
    topic: Mass media
  subject:
    topic: Communication
  subject:
    topic: History of the Book
  subject:
    topic: British and Irish Literature
  subject:
    topic: Media Sociology
  classification: Z4-15.2
  classification: 002
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: New Directions in Book History
  identifier: 9783319715100
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71510-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 180409
    record change date: 20191024172306.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-71510-0