Bring on the books for everybody how literary culture became popular culture

A look at how technology and literary, visual, and consumer cultures have combined over the past two decades to transform a once solitary, print-based experience into an exuberantly social activity.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collins, Jim, 1953- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press 2010.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009652834506719
Table of Contents:
  • The end of civilization (or at least civilized reading) as you know it : Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and self-cultivation
  • Book clubs, book lust, and national librarians : literary connoisseurship as popular entertainment
  • The movie was better : the rise of the cine-literary
  • "Miramaxing" : beyond mere adaptation
  • Sex and the post-literary city
  • The devoutly literary bestseller.