Literary festivals and contemporary book culture / Millicent Weber.

• Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Contemporary Literary Festivals: Brief Context and History; Defining Literary Festivals; Existing Research; Research Goals; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Recognising Literary Festivals; Production and Consumption, Commerce and Culture; From the Public Sphere to the Literary Field; Print Culture, Cultural Policy, and the Public Intellectual; Creating Value: Literary Celebrity and Literary Prizes; Arts Festivals; Literary Festivals; The Literary Festival Audience.
• Theoretical and Conceptual FrameworkLiterary Studies and Book History: Reader, Readership, Public; Media and Communications Studies: Consumers and the Mass Audience; Theatre and Performance Studies: Spectator Experience and the Theatre Audience; Introducing the Audience; Research Design; The Case Studies; Methodological Limitations; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Patterns of Attendance and Experience; Introducing the Data; The Qualitative Case Studies; Edinburgh International Book Festival; Melbourne Writers Festival; Emerging Writers' Festival; Clunes Booktown Festival.
• Port Eliot FestivalQuantitative Survey; Functions of the Audience Member: Spectator, Festival-goer, and Festival Participant; Motivations to Attend; Patterns of Experience and Interpretation; Positive and Negative Experiences; Active and Passive Engagement; Scholarly, Vernacular, and Middlebrow Engagement; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 4: Online and Onsite: Intersections in Embodied and Digital Engagement; Framing the Relationship Between Live and Digital; The Digital Age; Digital Engagement with Literature and Literary Communities; Reading as Socially Engaged Activity.
• Materiality and VirtualityThe Appeal of the Live Event; Encountering the Writer; Engagement with the Physical Space; Shared Space and Shared Experience; Meetings and Findings; Uniqueness; Comparisons and Crossovers Between Virtual and Live Engagement; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Festival as Policy Vehicle: Creative Industries, Creative Cities, and the Creative Class; Cultural Policy and the Literary Festival: Historical Context; Literary Events and Ideological Projects; The Contemporary Literary Festival; Contemporary Cultural Policy: Cultural and Creative Industries Perspectives.
• The Emergence of Cultural Policy in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and the United StatesBroadening Conceptions of Culture and the Introduction of Cultural Industries; Key Proponents of Creative Industries; Comparing Creative Industries Discourse and Literary Festivals: Key Constituencies; Comparing Creative Industries Discourse and Literary Festivals: Shared Social Values and Agendas; Reservations Regarding the Creative Industries Framework; Negotiations Between the Cultural and the Commercial; Lack of Ethical Engagement with Social Issues.

• 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 investigates these festivals' social, cultural, commercial, and political operation. In doing so, this book critically orients scholarly investigation of literary festivals with respect to the complex and contested terrain of contemporary book culture. 

Ämnesord

Festivaler  (sao)

Litteratursociologi  (sao)

Festivals.  (LCSH)

Dialogism (Literary analysis)  (LCSH)

Literature and society.  (LCSH)

Books and reading  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Book industries and trade  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Literature, Modern  -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. (LCSH)

Böcker och läsning  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Bokmarknaden  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Litteratur  -- teori, filosofi (sao)

LITERARY CRITICISM  -- Semiotics & Theory. (bisacsh)

Literature and society  (LCSH)

Festivals  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books. 

Klassifikation

PN81 (LCC)

LIT (ämneskategori)

801.95 (DDC)