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Rien n'est plus mysterieux et objet de plus de convoitise qu'un best-seller. Certains livres sont concus en fonction de recettes menant automatiquement au succes. D'autres, issus du meme moule, passent completement inapercus - tandis que certains ouvrages reputes difficiles recoivent parfois un accueil enthousiaste du public. Quel point commun peut-on trouver entre le Capital et Harry Potter, Le Petit Prince et Belle du Seigneur ? Existe-t-il un secret, une technique, permettant de transformer n'importe quel manuscrit en n(deg) 1 des ventes ? Quelle part revient a l'auteur dans cette reussite ? a l'editeur ? aux lecteurs ? Finalement, depuis le XIXe siecle, que nous disent les best-sellers ? S'agit-il d'une categorie historique, dont on peut relater l'invention ? Nous racontent-ils l'histoire d'un horizon de reception : celui du grand public ? Peut-on, de Walter Scott aux Fifty Shades of Grey, batir une histoire de la culture commune au plus grand nombre ? D'ailleurs, les lire, est-ce forcement les aime ? Une pleiade de specialistes de la litterature et des metiers du livre se penche ici avec interet sur ces livres exceptionnels, habituellement traites avec mepris.
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In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers' hunger for books that promised them potent knowledge. However, traditional literary histories of this period position the writings of Ihara Saikaku at center stage, largely neglecting the breadth of popular prose.In the first comprehensive study of the birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its publishing genres. Moretti explores how booksellers sparked interest among readers across the spectrum of literacies and demonstrates how they tantalized consumers with vital ethical, religious, societal, and interpersonal knowledge. She recasts books as tools for knowledge making, arguing that popular prose engaged its audience cognitively as well as aesthetically and emotionally to satisfy a burgeoning curiosity about the world. Crucially, Moretti shows, readers experienced entertainment within the didactic, finding pleasure in the profit gained from acquiring knowledge by interacting with transformative literature. Drawing on a rich variety of archival materials to present a vivid portrait of seventeenth-century Japanese publishing, Pleasure in Profit also speaks to broader conversations about the category of the literary by offering a new view of popular prose that celebrates plurality.
Japanese prose literature --- Popular literature --- History and criticism --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Japanese literature
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By exploring a rich array of Malay texts from novels and newspapers to poems and plays, Tom G. Hoogervorst's 'Language Ungoverned' examines how the Malay of the Chinese-Indonesian community defied linguistic and political governance under Dutch colonial rule, offering a fresh perspective on the subversive role of language in colonial power relations. As a liminal colonial population, the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia resorted to the press for their education, legal and medical advice, conflict resolution, and entertainment.
Malay language --- Popular literature --- Malay literature --- Chinese --- Printing --- Language and culture --- Literature and society --- Languages in contact --- Social aspects --- History --- Dialects --- Political aspects --- Publishing --- Chinese influences.
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While the term 'bestseller' explicitly relates books to sales, commercially successful books are also products of individual creative work. This Element presents a new perspective on the relationship between art and the market, with particular reference to bestselling writers and books. We examine some existing perspectives on art's relationship to the marketplace to trouble persistent binaries that see the two in opposition; we break down the monolith of the marketplace by thinking of it as made up of a range of invested, non-hostile participants such as publishing personnel and readers; we articulate the material dimensions of creative writing in the industry through the words of bestselling writers themselves; and we examine how the existence of bestselling books and writers in the world of letters bears enormous influence on the industry, and on the practice of other writers.
Best sellers --- Fiction --- Popular literature. --- Publishers and publishing. --- Authorship. --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Literature, Popular --- Books and reading --- Popular culture --- Fiction writing --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Bestsellers --- Publishing
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Échelles de soie, narcotiques et poisons, rapts et disparitions, croix-de-ma-mère, aventuriers et ingénues persécutées : le roman populaire ne tient pas tout entier dans ce bric-à-brac coloré. Rocambole, Fantômas, Fatala et bien d’autres prennent vie sous la plume de puissants chefs d’entreprise ou de modestes manoeuvres des lettres. Les articles réunis dans ce volume évoquent sans irrespect ni dévotion les grandes heures du feuilleton et des livraisons à bon marché où prit corps en quelques lieux, certes communs, mais fondamentaux, toute une forêt de fantasmes : la mise en scène à grand spectacle de la détresse ou le triomphe tonitruant du courage et des « bonnes causes ».
Sociology of literature --- Fiction --- Dime novels [French ] --- Romans à quatre sous français --- Stuiversromans [Franse ] --- French fiction --- Popular literature --- Roman français --- Paralittérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- France --- 19th century --- 20th century --- Roman populaire français --- Roman populaire francais --- 19e siecle --- 20e siecle --- Literature (General) --- XIXe siècle --- spectacle --- feuilleton --- livraison --- roman de gare --- Rocambole --- Fantômas --- Fatala
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Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on post-World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. This hybrid medium presented popular films in a magazine format that joined film stills or set pictures with captions and dialogue balloons to re-create a cinematic story, producing a tremendously popular blend of cinema and text that supported more than two dozen weekly or monthly publications. Illuminating a long-overlooked "lowbrow" medium with a significant social impact, The Film Photonovel studies the history of the format as a hybrid of film novelizations, drawn novels, and nonfilm photonovels. While the field of adaptation studies has tended to focus on literary adaptations, this book explores how the juxtaposition of words and pictures functioned in this format and how page layout and photo cropping could affect reading. Finally, the book follows the film photonovel's brief history in Latin America and the United States. Adding an important dimension to the interactions between filmmakers and their audiences, this work fills a gap in the study of transnational movie culture.
Fotonovelas --- Film adaptations --- Motion pictures and literature --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- Fotonovela --- Photo comic books --- Photo novels --- Photocomics --- Photographic novels --- Photonovelas --- Photonovels --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Popular literature --- Stories without words --- History and criticism --- Motion pictures and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Fotonovelas - History and criticism --- Film adaptations - History and criticism --- 094:82-91 --- 094:82-91 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Populaire literatuur. Volksboeken --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Populaire literatuur. Volksboeken
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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies is a comprehensive, global and interdisciplinary examination of the essential relationship between Gender, Sexuality, Comics and Graphic Novels. A diverse range of international and interdisciplinary scholars take a closer look at how gender and sexuality have been essential in the evolution of comics, and how gender and sexuality in comics demand that we re-frame and re-view comics history. Essays cover a wide array of intersectional topics including Queer Underground and Alternative comics, Feminist Autobiography, Re-drawing disability, Latina testimony, and re-evaluating the critical whiteness and masculinity of superheroes in this first truly global reference text to gender and sexuality in comics. Comics have always been an important place for the radical exploration of feminist and non-binary sexualities and identities, and the growth of non-normative comic book traditions as a field of inquiry makes this an essential text for upper level undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers studying Comics Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Literary Studies and Cultural Studies.
Comic books, strips, etc. --- Graphic novels --- Gender identity in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Graphic novels. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Comic book novels --- Fiction graphic novels --- Fictive graphic novels --- Graphic albums --- Graphic fiction --- Graphic nonfiction --- Graphic novellas --- Nonfiction graphic novels --- Fiction --- Popular literature --- Comic strips --- Comics --- Funnies --- Manga (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Manhua (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Manhwa (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Serial picture books --- Caricatures and cartoons --- Wit and humor, Pictorial --- History and criticism. --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Gender identity in literature --- Sex in literature --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- History and criticism --- E-books --- Comic books, strips, etc. - History and criticism --- Graphic novels - History and criticism
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Comics and other graphic narratives powerfully represent embodied experiences that are difficult to express in language. A group of authors from various countries and disciplines explore the unique capacity of graphic narratives to represent human embodiment as well as the relation of human bodies to the worlds they inhabit. Using works from illustrated scientific texts to contemporary comics across national traditions, we discover how the graphic narrative can shed new light on everyday experiences. Essays examine topics that are easily recognized as anchored in the body as well as experiences like migration and concepts like environmental degradation and compassion that emanate from or impact on our embodied states. 'Graphic Embodiments' is of interest to scholars and students across various interdisciplinary fields including comics studies, gender and sexuality studies, visual and cultural studies, disability studies and health and medical humanities.
Graphic novels --- Human beings in literature --- Human body in literature --- Health in literature --- 82-931 --- Comic book novels --- Fiction graphic novels --- Fictive graphic novels --- Graphic albums --- Graphic fiction --- Graphic nonfiction --- Graphic novellas --- Nonfiction graphic novels --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Fiction --- Popular literature --- 82-931 Stripverhaal --- Stripverhaal --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Man in literature --- History and criticism --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Graphic arts --- graphic arts --- human figures [visual works] --- comics [documents] --- History and criticism. --- Human beings in literature. --- Human body in literature. --- Health in literature.
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This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has nonetheless remained a flourishing business, embodying the unquestioned values of a literary system, but also functioning as a sign of a literary system in transition. Exploring the rise of new online amateur writing cultures in the twenty-first century, this collection of essays considers how literary advice proliferates globally, leading to new forms and genres.
Books—History. --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Creative writing. --- Technology in literature. --- Culture. --- Technology. --- History of the Book. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- Creative Writing. --- Literature and Technology/Media. --- Culture and Technology. --- Applied science --- Arts, Useful --- Science, Applied --- Useful arts --- Science --- Industrial arts --- Material culture --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Writing (Authorship) --- Authorship --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Social aspects --- History of the Book --- Nineteenth-Century Literature --- Creative Writing --- Literature and Technology/Media --- Culture and Technology --- Literature and Technology --- literary culture --- publishing culture --- literary advice manuals --- creative writing advice --- self-help books --- popular literature --- writing podcasts --- reading communities --- commercial writing culture --- popular amateur writing culture --- Open Access --- Literature: history & criticism --- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 --- Creative writing & creative writing guides --- Literary studies: general --- Cultural studies --- Books --- Literature, Modern --- Literature and technology. --- Mass media and literature. --- Technology --- Literature and Technology. --- Science, Technology and Society. --- History. --- 19th century. --- Sociological aspects. --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Literature and mass media --- Literature --- Sociology of technology --- Sociology
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