Literary Authorship in the Digital Age

Weel, André; Berensmeyer, Ingo; Buelens, Gert; Demoor, Marysa

doi:10.1017/9781316717516.014

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“…But, unlike a few decades ago, the creation, production, distribution, and consumption of cultural goods are now digitized. Print-on-demand (POD) services and free-for-all publishing sites have reduced the costs of book production, and audiences may be reached more efficiently thanks to the rise of online retailers (Svedjedal, 2000;Thompson, 2010;van der Weel, 2019;Waldfogel, 2017). Developments in print technology, along with the substantial reduction in costs which they bring, have significantly lowered the barriers to entry and paved the way for new start-ups to enter the publishing field.…”

Section: Defining Hybrid Publishingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Vandersmissen

2023

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In recent years, the possibilities for aspiring writers who wish to invest in publishing their work without the involvement of an established and external publishing house have grown tremendously. The aim of this article is to look into the global trend of ‘hybrid publishing services’ that operate in the grey zone between traditional publishing and self- publishing. Particular attention is given to the case of Hoi Publishing in Sweden. On the basis of empirical findings on the company’s legal and financial status, company turnover, and symbolic capital, the article examines the status and position of Hoi in relation to similar-sized royalty publishers in order to analyse how its business model fits into the contemporary Swedish literary publishing field. The findings of the case study are supplemented with survey data from 715 authors, publishing professionals, and literary critics, gathered in 2020.

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2023

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(World) Literature as Ars Vivendi through Collaborative Authorship

Aliyev

2022

J. World Lit.

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During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, 46 Portuguese authors collaborated on a serialized hypertext novel: Bode Inspiratório, translated into English as Escape Goat. It draws attention to escapism in literature and calls to the mind a 21st-century retelling of the Decameron, which belongs to the rich sets of texts emanating from The Thousand and One Nights we define in literature as ars moriendi. By transferring the act of collective storytelling to a digital platform, Escape Goat transgresses the monologism of authorial isolation by bringing together the heteroglossic structure of the novel with the polyphony of collaborative authorship. This study holds up Escape Goat as a proto example of collaborative Covid-novels and aims to demonstrate how this “novel” form of collaborative authorship extends the boundaries of world literature through a transformation of the escapist, mortuary and agonistic aspect of literature as ars moriendi, into the collaborative, ludic and solidarist aspect of literature as ars vivendi.

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2021

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This article explores how young adult artist novels respond to the current proliferation of digital media technologies. Examining two recent publications-Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell (2013) and Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia (2017), this paper analyses how these novels interrogate the shifting author function against the backdrop of digitalisation, and how that shift in turn affects the representation of young people's artistic maturation. Informed by a keen awareness of the profound ways in which technological advancements reshape traditional experiences and expectations of authorship and artistic growth, these contemporary novels offer a unique prism through which to complicate the evolving genre of the Künstlerroman in adolescent literature.

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Literary Authorship in the Digital Age

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