The Routledge Companion to Literary Media (Routledge Literature Companions)

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Literary Media </em>examines the fast-moving present and future of a media ecosystem in which the literary continues to play a vital role. The term ‘literary media’ challenges the tendency to hold the two terms distinct and broadens accepted usage of the literary to include popular cultural forms, emerging technologies and taste cultures, genres, and platforms, as well as traditions and audiences all too often excluded from literary histories and canons.</p><p>Featuring contributions from leading international scholars and practitioners, the <i>Companion </i>provides a comprehensive guide to existing terms and theories that address the alignment of literature and a variety of media forms. It situates the concept in relation to existing theories and histographies; considers emerging genres and forms such as locative narratives and autofiction; and expands discussion beyond the boundaries by which literary authorship is conventionally defined. Contributors also examine specific production and publishing contexts to provide in-depth analysis of the promotion of literary media materials. The volume further considers reading and other aspects of situated audience engagement, such as Indigenous and oral storytelling, prize and review cultures, book clubs, children, and young adults. </p><p>This authoritative collection is an invaluable resource for scholars and students working at the intersection of literary and media studies.</p> <p>Foreword <i>- Jim Collins</i></p><p>Introduction: What is Literary Media? <i>- Astrid Ensslin, Julia Round, Bronwen Thomas</i></p><p>PART I: Literary Media in Context</p><p>1 Towards a New History of Literary Media - <i>Alexis Weedon</i></p><p>2 Intermediality as a Material Practice and Artistic Event - <i>Marina Grishakova</i> </p><p>3 What is the Historiography of the Ebook? - <i>Simon Rowberry</i></p><p>PART II: Forms, Media, Materialities</p><p>4 Locative Narrative: Exploring Place-Based Storytelling - <i>Simone Murray</i></p><p>5 Ambient Literature - <i>Kate Pullinger and Jon Dovey</i></p><p>6 Autofiction in Words and Images: The Visual–Verbal Dialectic <i>– Hywel Dix</i></p><p>7 Important Artifacts and Literary Media in Archival Autofiction - <i>Elin Ivansson and Alison Gibbons</i></p><p>8 Counterfactuality and Disnarration in News Stories: Reimagining Real Events - <i>Marina Lambrou</i></p><p>9 The Evolution of Literary Journalism in the Digital Age - <i>Jaron Murphy</i></p><p>10 The Literary in Narrating Dramatic Life Experience - <i>Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvärinen and Jarmila Mildorf</i></p><p>11 Poeticity and Parody: The Literary Interview on Radio and Podcast <i>- Jarmila Mildorf</i></p><p>12 Composing Narratives through Song Cycles: Stories of Shropshire Lads in Vaughan Williams’s <i>On Wenlock Edge - Natalie Burton</i></p><p>13 Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Podiobooks - <i>Matthew Rubery</i></p><p>PART III: Creators, Networks, Intermediaries</p><p>14 Virtual Darkness, Tangible Light: Crafting Expressionism Through Algorithmic Poesis - <i>Martin P. Sheehan and William Wright</i></p><p>15 A Poetics of Misrepresentation: The Mimesis of Machine Learning in <i>ReRites - Malthe Stavning Erslev</i></p><p>16 The Influence of Digital Platforms on Authors of Electronic Literature and Interactive Digital Narratives - <i>R. Lyle Skains</i></p><p>17 Collaborative Fiction Writing Off- and Online: Toward a Genealogy - <i>Isabell Klaiber</i></p><p>18 Italian Net poetry: Caterina Davinio's Creative Experimentation (992–2009) - <i>Emanuela Patti</i></p><p>19 Digital Editions: Rethinking How We Preserve, Present and Explore Literary Correspondences - <i>Lisa Gee</i></p><p>20 Literary Games, Walking Simulators and the New Wave of Digital Fiction - <i>James O’Sullivan</i></p><p>21 Comics are a Medium, or, Learning From <i>Hicksville</i> - <i>Stephanie Burt and Emmy Waldman</i></p><p>PART IV: Markets, Economies, Industries </p><p>22 Producing Chinese Web-Based Literature: The ‘Qidian Model’ - <i>Yanjun Shao</i></p><p>23 Independent Publishing in a Post-Digital World: Creative Campaigns and Promotional Opportunities - <i>Anna Kiernan</i></p><p>24 Readers, Markets and a Packet of Literary Media, Please – Efferent Readers and their Ordering of a New Economics - <i>Simon Frost</i></p><p>25 Merchants of Culture? The Value of UK Bookshops - <i>Samantha J. Rayner</i></p><p>26 Literary Pilgrimages for Play and Profit: Intersections of Reading, Space and Commodification in Contemporary Japan - <i>Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche</i></p><p>27 Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Media Ecologies of Neoliberal Britain <i>- Megan Henesy</i></p><p>28 Capturing the Imagination: Literary Expression, Participatory Culture and Digital Enclosure - <i>David M. Meurer</i></p><p>29 Many Gates with a Single Keeper: How Amazon Incentives Shape Novels in the 21st Century - <i>Laura Dietz</i></p><p>30 Literary Festivals and the Media - <i>Alexandra Dane</i></p><p>PART V: Audiences, Engagement, Environments</p><p>31 Reading Digital Fiction and the Language of Immersion - <i>Alice Bell</i></p><p>32 Contemporary Critical Bibliotherapy and Its Uses in Creative, Digital-Born Body Image Interventions - <i>Karuna Nair, Astrid Ensslin, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Christine Wilks, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro and Megan Perram</i></p><p>33 Literary Bundles: Bodies, Media and Redefining Indigenous Literatures - <i>Kateryna Barnes and Trudy Cardinal</i></p><p>34 Postcolonial Videogame Paratexts: Replaying the Minor and the Subaltern from the Fringes - <i>Souvik Mukherjee</i></p><p>35 Keep Reading and Carry On: Mediated Reading During COVID-19 - <i>Stevie Marsden</i></p><p>36 'Doing' Literary Reading Online: The Case of BookTube - <i>Dorothee Birke</i></p><p>37 Sociality and Seriality in Digital Reading: Two Extra Memos for this Millennium - <i>Federico Pianzola</i></p><p>38 Immersive Theatre and Live Cinema: An Aesthetic of the In-between - <i>Carina E. I. Westling</i></p><p>39 Live Action Role Playing and Engagement with Literature - <i>Sara Bjärstorp and Petra Ragnerstam</i></p><p>40 Netflix Interactive Films and Gamebooks – <i>George Cox</i></p><p>41 The Dream of Interactivity in Children's Literary Media - <i>María Goicoechea de Jorge</i></p><p>Afterword<strong> </strong><i>– Julie Rak</i></p>