Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Weber, Millicent (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: New Directions in Book History
• Θέματα: Books-History.; British literature.; Mass media.; Communication.; History of the Book.; British and Irish Literature.; Media Sociology.

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 lit...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.