1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Literary Media
The Routledge Companion to Literary Media 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.
Featuring contributions from leading international scholars and practitioners, the Companion 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.
This authoritative collection is an invaluable resource for scholars and students working at the intersection of literary and media studies.
List of Contributors
Foreword - Jim Collins
Introduction: What is Literary Media? - Astrid Ensslin, Julia Round, Bronwen Thomas
PART I: Literary Media in Context
1 Towards a New History of Literary Media - Alexis Weedon
2 Intermediality as a material practice and artistic event - Marina Grishakova
3 What is the Historiography of the Ebook? - Simon Rowberry
PART II: Forms, Media, Materialities
4 Locative Narrative - Simone Murray
5 Ambient Literature - Kate Pullinger and Jon Dovey
6 Autofiction in Words and Images: The Verbal-Visual Dialectic – Hywel Dix
7 Important Artifacts and Literary Media in Archival Autofiction - Elin Ivansson and Alison Gibbons
8 Counterfactuality and Disnarration in news stories: reimagining real events - Marina Lambrou
9 The Evolution of Literary Journalism in the Digital Age - Jaron Murphy
10 The Literary in Narrating Dramatic Life Experience - Mari Hatavara, Matti Hyvärinen and Jarmila Mildorf
11 Poeticity and Parody: The Literary Interview on Radio and Podcast - Jarmila Mildorf
12 Composing Narratives through Song Cycles: Stories of Shropshire Lads in Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge - Natalie Burton
13 Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Podiobooks - Matthew Rubery
PART III: Creators, Networks, Intermediaries
14 Virtual Darkness, Tangible Light: Crafting Expressionism Through Algorithmic Poesis - Martin P. Sheehan and William Wright
15 A Poetics of Misrepresentation: The Mimesis of Machine Learning in ReRites - Malthe Stavning Erslev
16 The Influence of Digital Platforms on Authors of Electronic Literature and Interactive Digital Narratives - R. Lyle Skains
17 Collaborative Fiction Writing Off- and Online: Toward a Genealogy - Isabell Klaiber
18 Italian Net poetry: Caterina Davinio from karenina.it (1998) to Network Poetico (2009) - Emanuela Patti
19 Digital Editions: rethinking how we preserve, present and explore literary correspondences - Lisa Gee
20 Literary Games, Walking Simulators and the New Wave of Digital Fiction - James O’Sullivan
21 Comics are a Medium, or, Learning From Hicksville - Stephanie Burt and Emmy Waldman
PART IV: Markets, Economies, Industries
22 Producing Chinese Web-based Literature: The ‘Qidian Model’ - Yanjun Shao
23 Independent Publishing in a Post-Digital World: Creative Campaigns and Promotional Opportunities - Anna Kiernan
24 Readers, Markets and a Packet of Literary Media, Please – Efferent Readers and their Ordering of a New Economics - Simon Frost
25 Merchants of Culture? The Value of UK Bookshops - Samantha J. Rayner
26 Literary Pilgrimages for Play and Profit: Intersections of Reading, Space and Commodification in Contemporary Japan - Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche
27 Contemporary Women’s Writing and the Media Ecologies of Neoliberal Britain - Megan Henesy
28 Capturing the Imagination: Literary Expression, Participatory Culture and Digital Enclosure - David M. Meurer
29 Many Gates with a Single Keeper: How Amazon Incentives Shape Novels in the 21st Century - Laura Dietz
30 Literary Festivals and the Media - Alexandra Dane
PART V: Audiences, Engagement, Environments
31 Reading Digital Fiction and the Language of Immersion - Alice Bell
32 Contemporary Critical Bibliotherapy and Its Uses in Creative, Digital-Born Body Image Interventions - Karuna Nair, Astrid Ensslin, Carla Rice, Sarah Riley, Christine Wilks, Hannah Fowlie, Lauren Munro and Megan Perram
33 Literary Bundles: Bodies, Media and Redefining Indigenous Literatures - Kateryna Barnes & Trudy Cardinal
34 Postcolonial Videogame Paratexts: Replaying the Minor and the Subaltern from the Fringes - Souvik Mukherjee
35 Keep Reading and Carry On: Mediated Reading During COVID-19 - Stevie Marsden
36 `Doing` Literary Reading Online: The Case of BookTube - Dorothee Birke
37 Sociality and Seriality in Digital Reading: Two Extra Memos for this Millennium - Federico Pianzola
38 Immersive Theatre and Live Cinema: An Aesthetic of the In-between - Carina E. I. Westling
39 Live Action Role Playing and Engagement with Literature - Sara Bjärstorp and Petra Ragnerstam
40 Netflix Interactive Films and Gamebooks – George Cox
41 The Dream of Interactivity in Children Literary Media - María Goicoechea de Jorge
Afterword – Julie Rak
Index
Biography
Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Digital Cultures and Communication at the University of Regensburg in Germany. She has published books on literary gaming, digital fiction, pre-web digital publishing, and language in the media, and is principal editor of the Bloomsbury Electronic Literature book series.
Julia Round is Associate Professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK. Her books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (2014) and the award-winning Gothic for Girls (2019). She is one of the founders and editors of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series.
Bronwen Thomas is Emeritus Professor of English and New Media at Bournemouth University in the UK. She is the author of Literature and Social Media (2020) and has led several major projects on digital reading in the UK and Kenya.
