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Télécharger le livre :  Editing Fiction
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Editing Fiction


Alice Grundy


Editing Fiction considers the collaborative efforts of literary production as well as editorial practice in its own right, using case studies by Australian novelists Jessica Anderson, Thea Astley and Ruth Park. An emphasis on collaboration is necessary because literary...

Parution : 2022-08-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Fantasies of the Bookstore
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Fantasies of the Bookstore


Eben J. Muse


This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917 have...

Parution : 2022-07-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Institutions of Literature, 1700–1900
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Institutions of Literature, 1700–1900


Jon Mee , Matthew Sangster


This collection provides students and researchers with a new and lively understanding of the role of institutions in the production, reception, and meaning of literature in the period 1700–1900. The period saw a fundamental transition from a patronage system to a...

Parution : 2022-07-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Readers in a Revolution
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Readers in a Revolution


David Mckitterick


The mid-nineteenth century brought a revolution in popular and scholarly understandings of old and second-hand books. Manuals introduced new ideas and practices to increasing numbers of collectors, exhibitions offered opportunities previously unheard of, and scholars...

Parution : 2022-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Is This a Book?
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Is This a Book?


Miha Kovac , Angus Phillips


This is a book about the book. Is this a book? is a question of wide appeal and interest. With the arrival of ebooks, digital narratives and audiobooks, the time is right for a fresh discussion of what is a book. Older definitions that rely solely on print no longer...

Parution : 2022-06-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Women and Letterpress Printing 1920–2020
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Women and Letterpress Printing 1920–2020


Claire Battershill


This Element analyses the relationship between gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. Drawing on examples from modernist writer/printers of the 1920s to literary book artists of the early 21st, it offers a way...

Parution : 2022-06-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Translation Imperatives
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Translation Imperatives


Ruth Bush


This Element explores the politics of literary translation via case studies from the Heinemann African Writers Series and the work of twenty-first-century literary translators in Cameroon. It intervenes in debates concerning multilingualism, race and decolonization, as...

Parution : 2022-06-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Publishing in Wales
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Publishing in Wales


Jacob D. Rawlins


The creation of texts preserves culture, literature, myth, and society, and provides invaluable insights into history. Yet we still have much to learn about the history of how those texts were produced and how the production of texts has influenced modern societies,...

Parution : 2022-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature
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Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature


Astrid Ensslin


This Element examines a watershed moment in the recent history of digital publishing through a case study of the pre-web, serious hypertext periodical, the Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (1994-1995). Early hypertext writing relied on standalone, mainframe...

Parution : 2022-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Handbook for Academic Authors
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Handbook for Academic Authors


Beth Luey


Whether you are a faculty member, a librarian, an independent scholar, the junior member of a research team, or a writer outside academia, Handbook for Academic Authors will help you select the right publisher, submit a winning proposal, negotiate a favorable contract,...

Parution : 2022-03-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Teaching Publishing and Editorial Practice
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Teaching Publishing and Editorial Practice


Jocelyn Hargrave


A key challenge facing all educators working in practice-based subjects is the need to negotiate tensions between past and present and provide a training that prepares students for fast-changing conditions, while also conveying long-standing principles. This Element...

Parution : 2022-02-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Publication and the Papacy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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Publication and the Papacy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages


Samu Niskanen


This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates that throughout the medieval period, papal involvement in the publication of new works was a phenomenon, which surged in the...

Parution : 2022-01-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561
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The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561


Peter W. M. Blayney


Bibliographers have been notoriously 'hesitant to deal with liturgies', and this volume bridges an important gap with its authoritative examination of how the Book of Common Prayer came into being. The first edition of 1549, the first Grafton edition of 1552 and the...

Parution : 2022-01-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Publishing Scholarly Editions
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Publishing Scholarly Editions


Christopher Ohge


Publishing Scholarly Editions offers new intellectual tools for publishing digital editions that bring readers closer to the experimental practices of literature, editing, and reading. After the Introduction (Section 1), Sections 2 and 3 frame intentionality and data...

Parution : 2021-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  New Adult Fiction
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New Adult Fiction


Jodi Mcalister


The term 'new adult' was coined in 2009 by St Martin's Press, when they sought submissions for a contest for 'fiction similar to YA that can be published and marketed as adult – a sort of 'older YA' or 'new adult'.' However, the literary category that later emerged bore...

Parution : 2021-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Spread of Print in Colonial India
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The Spread of Print in Colonial India


Abhijit Gupta


This study focuses on the spread of print in colonial India towards the middle and end of the nineteenth century. Till the first half of the century, much of the print production in the subcontinent emanated from presidency cities such as Calcutta, Bombay and Madras,...

Parution : 2021-11-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Writing Bestsellers
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Writing Bestsellers


Lisa Bennett , Kim Wilkins


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...

Parution : 2021-10-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Savvy Academic
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The Savvy Academic


Seth J. Schwartz


This approachable guide meets health and social sciences scholars at their level--either as a reference text or as an enchanting but practical read--and walks them through each stage of their academic publishing journey. Drawing on a wealth of examples from his own...

Parution : 2021-10-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Entrepreneurial Identity in US Book Publishing in the Twenty-First Century
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Entrepreneurial Identity in US Book Publishing in the Twenty-First Century


Rachel Noorda


Entrepreneurship underpins many roles within the publishing industry, from freelancing to bookselling. Entrepreneurs are shaped by the contexts in which their entrepreneurship is situated (social, political, economic, and national). Additionally, entrepreneurship is...

Parution : 2021-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise of American Girls' Literature
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The Rise of American Girls' Literature


Ashley N. Reese


This Element looks at the publishing history of the genre, girls' literature, in the United States spanning 1850–1940. The genre is set in context, beginning with an examination of the early American women's literature that preceded girls' literature. Then the Element...

Parution : 2021-06-17
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