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Live literature : the experience and cultural value of literary performance events from salons to festivals / Ellen Wiles.

9783030503857 (electronic bk.)
3030503852 (electronic bk.)
3030503844
9783030503840

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-50385-7 doi

Z1003

028.9
300

This ground-breaking book explores the phenomenal growth of live literature in the digitalizing 21st century. Wiles asks why literary events appeal and matter to people, and how they can transform the ways in which fiction is received and valued. Readers are immersed in the experience of two contrasting events: a major literary festival and an intimate LGBTQ+ salon. Evocative scenes and observations are interwoven with sharp critical analysis and entertaining conversations with well-known author-performers, reader-audiences, producers, critics, and booksellers. Wiless experiential literary ethnography represents an innovative and vital contribution, not just to literary research, but to research into the value of cultural experience across art forms. This book probes intersections between readers and audiences, writers and performers, texts and events, bodies and memories, and curation and reception. It addresses key literary debates from cultural appropriation to diversity in publishing, the effects of social media, and the quest for authenticity. It will engage a broad audience, from academics and producers to writers and audiences.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Palgrave studies in literary anthropology.

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