书目名称 | Literary Festivals and Contemporary Book Culture | 编辑 | Millicent Weber | 视频video | | 概述 | Sociological approach fuses audience research with theoretical analysis of contemporary cultural policy initiatives.Until now the behaviour and experiences of literary festival audiences have been a r | 丛书名称 | New Directions in Book History | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .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 inves | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | 关键词 | Book prize; Author; Publisher; Agent; Cultural output; Literary festivals; Book culture; British and Irish | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71510-0 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-10066-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-71510-0Series ISSN 2634-6117 Series E-ISSN 2634-6125 | issn_series | 2634-6117 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 |
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