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Bring on the books for everybody : how literary culture became popular culture / Jim Collins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Jim, 1953-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture and literature--United States.
- Popular culture and literature.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Book clubs (Bookselling)--United States.
- Book clubs (Bookselling).
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)--United States.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (300 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A look at how technology and literary, visual, and consumer cultures have combined over the past two decades to transform a once solitary, print-based experience into an exuberantly social activity.
- Contents:
- The end of civilization (or at least civilized reading) as you know it : Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and self-cultivation
- Book clubs, book lust, and national librarians : literary connoisseurship as popular entertainment
- The movie was better : the rise of the cine-literary
- "Miramaxing" : beyond mere adaptation
- Sex and the post-literary city
- The devoutly literary bestseller.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-275) and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed May 25, 2023)
- ISBN:
- 9786613036353
- 9781283036351
- 1283036355
- 9780822391975
- 082239197X
- OCLC:
- 746582163
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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