UID:
almafu_9960943441102883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 246 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-83998-277-2
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1-83998-278-0
Series Statement:
Anthem studies in book history, publishing and print culture
Content:
This anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status. In many cases, for example, the distinctions between 'highbrow' and 'lowbrow' taste have little to do with the content of the texts themselves, as books often function as markers of socioeconomic status, like clothing or home décor. One might even go so far as to say that the concept of literary taste is more closely related to fashion sense than critical judgment. The anthology seeks to address this claim by examining how the tensions between consumerism and prestige reflect fundamental historical changes with regard to the development of technology, literacy and social power.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Dec 2022).
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Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Consumerism and Prestige -- Section One. MATERIAL FORMS AND LITERARY PUBLISHING -- Chapter 1. Devotion and Consumption: Ludwig Tieck, Literary Pocketbooks, and the Novella Craze -- Chapter 2. Packaging Process: Peter Handke's Writing for Sale -- Chapter 3. Contrasts in the Brazilian Book Market in the Early Twenty-First Century -- Section Two MATERIAL DISTINCTIONS IN POPULAR FICTION -- Chapter 4. Only the "Outward Appearance" of a Harem? Reading Memoirs of an Arabian Princess as a Material Text -- Chapter 5. Hidden Codes of Love: The Materiality of the Category Romance Novel -- Chapter 6. Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: A Rhetorical Reading of the Schneekluth Edition Dust Jackets -- Section Three CULTURAL PRESTIGE AND GRAPHIC NARRATIVES -- Chapter 7. The Printing of Phantasms: The Illustrations of Nineteenth-Century Serialized Novels and their Appropriation in Max Ernst's Collage Novel Une Semaine de Bonté -- Chapter 8. From Penny Dreadful to Graphic Novel: Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's Genealogy of Comics in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen -- Chapter 9. Comic Books Versus Graphic Novels: Commodity Forms and Cultural Prestige -- Section Four ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING AND READING PRACTICES -- Chapter 10. The Book and the E-Book: Footnotes, Margins, and Typography in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Chapter 11. E-Book Collections as an Opportunity to Recover Unpublished or Forgotten Texts -- Chapter 12. How much does the Symbolic Capital of Books Cost? Operationalizing the Prestige of Books in the Digital Age -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-83998-276-4
Language:
English
