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  • - Exploring a Complex Reading Experience
    af Lucia (Queens College Cedeira Serantes
    205,95 kr.

    This Element is founded upon research conducted with seventeen teens and young adults who identify themselves as readers of comics for pleasure. These interviews provide insights about how comics reading evolves with the readers and their overall reading experience. Special attention is paid to the place of female readers in the comics community.

  • - Conventions, Originality, Reproducibility
    af Kim (University of Queensland) Wilkins
    184,95 kr.

    Considering young adult fantasy (YA fantasy) texts alongside the way they are circulated and marketed, this Element aims to show that the YA fantasy genre is a dynamic formation that takes shape and reshapes itself responsively in a continuing process over time.

  • - Lands of High Adventure
    af Patrick (University of British Columbia Moran
    185,95 kr.

    This Element examines four key questions raised by the prospect of a fantasy canon: the way in which canon and genre influence each other; the overwhelming presence of Tolkien in any discussion of the classics of fantasy; the multi-media and transmedia nature of the field; and the push for a more inclusive and diverse canon.

  • af Eugene (Anglia Ruskin University Giddens
    187,95 kr.

    The Christmas book market has played an important role in the growth of children's literature. Starting with the eighteenth century and continuing to recent sales successes and picturebooks, Christmas Books for Children investigates continuities and new trends in this hugely significant part of the children's book market.

  • af Corinna (Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz Norrick-Ruhl
    178,95 kr.

    In the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like Book-of-the-Month Club. This Element offers an introduction to book clubs as a distribution channel and cultural phenomenon, and shows that book clubs and book commerce are linked inextricably. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

  • - The Economics of Academic Bookselling
    af J. M. Hawker
    186,95 kr.

    Defines the academic bookshop, text, and market. Examines change drivers in worldwide markets. Draws on current research from commercial publishers and publishing interest groups. Includes quantitative and qualitative research data from academic booksellers. Argues that academic booksellers can lead a sustainable and equitable future for the academic text.

  • - Networks of Authorship and Publishing
    af Caroline Davis
    185,95 kr.

    This Element unravels the hidden networks and associations underpinning African literary publishing in the 1960s; it investigates the success of the CIA in disrupting and infiltrating African literary magazines and publishing firms, and determines the extent to which new circuits of cultural and literary power emerged.

  • - Changing Perspectives in the Humanities
    af Ruth (Queen Mary University of London) Ahnert
    187,95 kr.

    This Element contends that networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines through a shared understanding of complexity in our world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

  • af Stephen H. (Bath Spa University) Gregg
    187,95 kr.

    This is a history of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, a database of over 180,000 titles. Published by Gale in 2003 it has had an enormous impact of the study of the eighteenth century. An essential aspect of this Element is how it explores the socio-cultural and technological debates around the access to old books.

  • - Emerging Forms of Reading
    af Sarah (Carleton University Brouillette
    184,95 kr.

    The legal publishing industry in Africa campaigns to convince people to scorn pirates and plagiarists as a criminal underclass, and to instead purchase copyrighted, barcoded works that have the look of legitimacy about them. This Element is a study of the emergence of new forms of reading in English in African cities.

  • - The Literature of Anita Heiss
    af Fiannuala (Australian National University Morgan
    185,95 kr.

    Wiradjuri woman, Anita Heiss, is arguably one of the first Aboriginal Australian authors of popular fiction. In this Element a focus on the political characterises her chick lit; and her identity as an author is both supplemented and complemented by her roles as an academic, activist and public intellectual.

  • af Leah (University of Leeds) Henrickson
    185,95 kr.

    Natural language generation (NLG) is the process wherein computers produce output in readable human languages. Such output takes many forms, including news articles, sports reports, prose fiction, and poetry. This Element considers how NLG conforms to and confronts traditional understandings of authorship and what it means to be a reader.

  • af Ashley N. (University of South Florida) Reese
    186,95 kr.

    This Element looks at the publishing history of the genre, girls' literature, in the United States spanning 1850-1940. American girls' literature shares a common bildungsroman: heroines 'grow down,' choosing community over individualism, by entering a domestic role.

  • af Rachel (Portland State University) Noorda
    186,95 kr.

    This Element examines entrepreneurship through the lens of identity and narrative based on interview data with book publishing entrepreneurs in the US Book publishing entrepreneurship narratives of independence, culture over commerce, accidental profession, place, risk, (in)stability, busyness, and freedom are examined in this Element.

  • - Into the Hinterland
    af Abhijit (Jadavpur University Gupta
    186,95 kr.

    This study focuses on the spread of print in colonial India towards the middle and end of the nineteenth century. This Element will look at this phenomenon in eastern India, and survey how printing spread from Calcutta to centres such as Hooghly-Chinsurah, Murshidabad, Burdwan, Rangpur etc.

  • - Love, Money, and Creative Practice
    af Kim (University of Queensland) Wilkins
    185,95 kr.

    While the term 'bestseller' explicitly relates books to sales, commercially successful books are also products of individual creative work. This Element presents a new perspective on the relationship between art and the market, with particular reference to bestselling writers and books.

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