The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era

The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era
ISBN-10
1421426099
ISBN-13
9781421426099
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
252
Language
English
Published
2018-10-01
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Author
Simone Murray

Description

Drawing on approaches from literary studies, media and cultural studies, book history, cultural policy, and the digital humanities, this book asks: What is the significance of authors communicating directly to readers via social media? How does digital media reframe the “live” author-reader encounter? And does the growing army of reader-reviewers signal an overdue democratizing of literary culture or the atomizing of cultural authority? In exploring these questions, The Digital Literary Sphere takes stock of epochal changes in the book industry while probing books’ and digital media’s complex contemporary coexistence.

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