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1 online resource : color illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Performing authorship in the digital literary sphere -- 'Selling' literature: cultivating community in the digital literary sphere -- Curating the public life of literature: literary festivals online -- Consecrating the literary: book review culture and the digital literary sphere -- Entering literary discussion: fiction reading online. |
| Summary |
"Despite the talk of the "death of the book," traditionally linear and often print-based narratives have continued to flourish in the Internet era. Shifting focus from analyzing specific literary texts to a sociological examination of the contemporary literary scene, Simone Murray provides crucial insights into the major forces shaping this digital literary sphere. Analyzing the apparatus and institutional factors shaping contemporary online literary culture, including producers, retailers, festival organizers, evaluators, and consumers, Murray highlights how these traditionally distinct roles are radically blurring and the significance of this for all stakeholders in the literary industry. The Internet's massive expansion of participants in literary debates is democratizing literary culture in refreshing ways, but it is simultaneously throwing up thorny questions about cultural authority, destabilizing geographically based conceptions of literary canons, and problematizing the boundaries of the literary text. These are in essence theoretical issues of fundamental import to all with an interest in literature, and to literary scholars in particular"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Literature and the Internet.
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Literature and the Internet. |
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Discourse analysis, Literary -- Data processing.
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Discourse analysis, Literary -- Data processing. |
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Discourse analysis, Literary. |
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Literature -- Computer network resources.
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Literature -- Computer network resources. |
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Literature. |
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Electronic publications.
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Electronic publications. |
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Digital libraries.
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Digital libraries. |
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Hypertext systems.
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Hypertext systems. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Murray, Simone. Digital literary sphere. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018 1421426099 9781421426099 (OCoLC)1030906169 |
| ISBN |
9781421426105 (electronic book) |
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1421426102 (electronic book) |
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9781421426099 |
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1421426099 |
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