Beschreibung
An ethnographic exploration of "live literature," from the literary salon to the contemporary literary festival, this book untangles how literature is transformed via the participation of authors/performances, readers/audiences, alongside individual event producers. Wiles, a published author and literary critic, takes her reader through a broad sample of event ethnographies, from a major literary festival to an intimate salon and other literary happenings, incorporating as she does evocative descriptions, the literary texts performed, and response from the participants. The book effortlessly moves through micro to macro considerations, probing the intersections between live literature and eBooks, online reading platforms, the changing structures of contemporary publishing, and literary controversies thrown into relief via literary events, such around cultural appropriation and authors' anonymity. Ultimately, Wiles questions if literary-festival culture has negatively affected not only how readers perceive the legitimacy of fiction, but also the freedom of authors to write and live how they choose.
Autorenporträt
Ellen Wiles is 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 The Invisible Crowd (2017) which was awarded the Victor Turner Prize in ethnographic writing and was a Guardian book of the year, and Saffron Shadows (2015), a book about literary culture in Myanmar. She previously worked as a human rights lawyer.
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