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Digital Social Reading
How digital social reading apps are powerfully changing—and nurturing—the way we read. Conventional wisdom would have us believe that digital technology is a threat to reading, but in Digital Social Reading, Federico Pianzola argues that reading socially through digital media can help people grow a passion for reading and, in some cases, even enhance text comprehension. Digital social reading (DSR) is a term that encompasses a wide variety of practices related to the activity of reading and using digital technologies and platforms (websites, social media, mobile apps) to share thoughts and impressions about books with others. This book is the first systematization of DSR practices, drawi...
The Rise of the Graphic Novel
Using digital methods, this book traces the emergence of the graphic novel at the intersection of popular and literary culture.
A Fan Studies Primer
This is the first comprehensive primer for classroom use that shows students how to do fan studies in practical terms. With contributions from a range of established and emerging scholars, coeditors Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams pull together case studies that demonstrate the wide array of methodologies available to fan studies scholars, such as auto/ethnography, immersion, interviews, online data mining, historiography, and textual analysis.
Reading Audio Readers
The first computational study of reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture. Offering an academic perspective on the kind of user data hoard we associate with tech companies, it asks: when it comes to audiobooks, what do people really read, and how and when do they read it? Tracking hundreds of thousands of readers on the level per user and hour, Reading Audio Readers combines computational methods from cultural analytics with theoretical perspectives from book history, publishing studies, and media studies. In doing so, it provides new insights into reading practices in digital platforms, the effects of the audiobook boom, and the business-models for book publishing and distribution in the age of streamed audio.
Stylistics, Stylometry and Sentiment Analysis in German Studies
Can literature be investigated through quantitative methods? Can style, empathy, and prestige be measured? This study attempts to respond to these questions by providing results from a selection of case studies taken from German literature of the 19th through the 21st century, including Goethe’s “late style”, Felix Salten, and the output of contemporary writers such as Florian Meimberg’s “twitterature” and Daniel Glattauer’s e-mail novel. Altogether, this study shows how the interplay among literary theory, stylometry, stylistics, sentiment analysis, empirical studies, and archival research can offer new answers to old questions regarding German literature and provide tools to formulate new questions and novel approaches to research.
Asian English
Contesting the idea that the study of Anglophone literature and literary studies is simply a foreign import in Asia, this collection addresses the genealogies of textual critique and institutionalized forms of teaching of English language and literature in Asia through the 19th and 20th centuries, along with an examination of how its present options and possible future directions relate to these historical contexts. It argues that the establishment of Anglophone literature in Asia did not simply “happen”: there were extra-literary and -academic forces at work, inserting and domesticating in Asian universities both the English language and Anglo-American literature, and their attendant cultural and political values. Offering new perspectives for ongoing conversations surrounding the globalization of Anglophone literature in literary and cultural studies, the book also considers the practicalities of teaching both the language and its canon of classic texts, and that the historical formation and shape of English studies in Asia offers lessons that relate not only to the discipline but also may be applied to the humanities as a whole.
Rewriting and Rereading the XIX and XX-Century Canons
The book takes its lead from academic Annamaria Pagliaro’s experience straddling Australia and Italy over a thirty-year period. As both former colleagues and collaborators of Pagliaro, we editors intend to open a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the international research landscape in the fields of Italian and Anglophone studies, starting from Pagliaro’s own contribution to the creation of relations between the two cultures in the period that saw her work transnationally as Director of the Monash University Prato Centre (2005-2008).
What Readers Do
Shining a spotlight on everyday readers of the 21st century, Beth Driscoll explores how contemporary readers of Anglophone fiction interact with the book industry, digital environments, and each other. We live in an era when book clubs, bibliomemoirs, Bookstagram and BookTok are as valuable to some readers as solitary reading moments. The product of nearly two decades of qualitative research into readers and reading culture, What Readers Do examines reading through three dimensions - aesthetic conduct, moral conduct, and self-care to show how readers intertwine private and social behaviors, and both reinforce and oppose the structures of capitalism. Analyzing reading as a post-digital practice that is a synthesis of both print and digital modes and on- and offline behaviors, Driscoll presents a methodology for studying readers that connects book history, literary studies, sociology, and actor-network theory. Arguing for the vitality, agency, and creativity of readers, this book sheds light on how we read now - and on how much more readers do than just read.
Buchblogs zwischen Passion und Profession
Die Digitalisierung hat die Art und Weise verändert, wie Menschen über Bücher kommunizieren. Neu entstandene Praktiken, wie Buchblogging oder Social Reading, lassen sich nicht unmittelbar in traditionelle soziokulturelle Kategorien wie »Literaturkritik«, »Arbeit«, »Freizeitbeschäftigung« oder »Marketing« einordnen. Sie werden teilweise sogar als Konkurrenz oder Bedrohung für bestehende Handlungsformen, wie die professionelle Literaturkritik, wahrgenommen. Im Zentrum steht daher die Frage, wie bzw. anhand welcher Deutungsmuster, Topoi und Narrative die Tätigkeit von Buchblogger*innen als exemplarische Form dieser neuen digitalen Praktiken der literaturbezogenen Anschlusskommunikation diskursiviert wird. Daraus ergeben sich nicht nur Erkenntnisse über aktuelle Entwicklungen innerhalb des Literaturbetriebes, sondern auch Einsichten in digitale Arbeitswelten, in denen Buchblogger*innen als sogenannte ›Influencer*innen‹ agieren.
Jacqueline Risset. Scritture dell’istante
«Nata il 25 maggio 1936. Due desideri precisi: non diventare adulta, scrivere». Jacqueline Risset (1936-2014) è stata traduttrice dal francese (Ponge, Sollers, i poeti di Tel Quel,) e dall’italiano (Dante, Machiavelli, Balestrini), nonché nota studiosa per i suoi lavori su Scève, Proust, Bataille. Questo volume si propone di analizzare l’opera poetica di Risset, dagli esordi con la scrittura testuale nell’ambito dello sperimentalismo di Tel Quel, passando per una traiettoria che, incrociando Dante e lo stilnovismo attraverso il lavoro di traduzione della Commedia, portò l’autrice all’elaborazione di una poetica incentrata sugli «istanti privilegiati» che aprono «all’altrove».
