The Digital Literary Sphere
Author | : Simone Murray |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2018-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421426099 |
Download The Digital Literary Sphere Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.