{"product_id":"live-literature-the-experience-and-cultural-value-of-literary-performance-events-from-salons-to-festivals-paperback","title":"Live Literature: The Experience and Cultural Value of Literary Performance Events from Salons to Festivals - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEllen Wiles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Speaking of Writing and Writing of Speaking: What, where, how, whyChapter 2: Hay Festival: The remote Welsh field that stages the global publishing industryChapter 3: Polari Salon: The revival of an Enlightenment tradition with an activist twistChapter 4: Experiential Literary Ethnography: A creative approach to revealing cultural valueChapter 5: Summing Up the Story: patterns, divergences, insights, ideas\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis ground-breaking book explores the phenomenal growth of live literature in the digitalizing 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e 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. Wiles's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEllen Wiles \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer, curator and academic. A Lecturer in Creative Writing at Exeter University, her interdisciplinary research practice combines literary anthropology with creative writing. She is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e (2017) which was awarded the Victor Turner Prize in ethnographic writing and was a Guardian book of the year, and \u003ci\u003eSaffron Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), a book about literary culture in Myanmar. She previously worked as a human rights lawyer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 380\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.89 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51823376793888,"sku":"9783030503840","price":41.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c78e9ae50626c386a5e3171ef6fb9f16.webp?v=1781192830","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/live-literature-the-experience-and-cultural-value-of-literary-performance-events-from-salons-to-festivals-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}