Audiobooks are swiftly becoming more popular with commonly obtainable electronic downloading and streaming providers. This publication engages with the electronic kind of audiobooks, framing audiobook listening as either a remediation of literature and a daily job that creates new analyzing stories that may be in comparison to hearing track or the radio. Have and Stougaard Pedersen problem the historic idea that audiobook listening is a compensatory job or a second-rate interpreting event, whereas looking to determine a discussion among sound reviews and media reviews, comparative literature, aesthetics, and sociology.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, word: 1,3, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft; Abteilung Buchwissenschaft/Buchwirtschaft), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Buchwirtschaft im three. Reich, thirteen Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: „Die Geschichte vergisst nichts. Irgendwann präsentiert sie ihre Rechnungen, unnachsichtiger als die preußische Oberrechnungskammer, wie Bismarck einmal bemerkte.“ Dieses Zitat kann auf viele Personen und Unternehmen zutreffen, die durch ihr Handeln und Sein einerseits die Geschichte geprägt, beeinflusst und verändert haben, aber andererseits auch einige Abschnitte daraus vergessen, verschwiegen oder sogar „gereinigt“ haben. Auch vor dem Bertelsmann Verlag und dem J. F. Lehmanns Verlag machte die Geschichte nicht Halt und die Gegenwart präsentiert deren Vergangenheit in einem anderen Licht. Um Beschuldigungen, Vorwürfe und Unklarheiten gegen diese beiden Unternehmen zu entkräften bzw. zu bestätigen, wurden Wissenschaftler beauftragt, die deren Firmengeschichte im Dritten Reich untersuchen sollten.
In Zusammenhang mit den veröffentlichten Untersuchungen zum Bertelsmann Verlag und zum J. F. Lehmanns Verlag werde ich in meiner Hausarbeit deren Verhalten auf dem Gebiet des Buchhandels, der Politik und Kultur in der Weimarer Republik und zu Beginn des Nationalsozialismus untersuchen. Anhand der Verlagsprogramme und ausgewählter Werke möchte ich analysieren und darstellen, inwieweit diese Literatur das Regime des Dritten Reiches ideologisch unterstützt hat oder auch nicht. Außerdem werde ich auch auf die Unternehmensphilosophie eingehen und versuche zu erläutern, inwiefern der Verleger sein verlegerisches Medium nutzte, um die Nationalsozialisten zu fördern. Wurden „regimefreundliche“ Bücher aus Existenzangst oder aus vollster politischer Überzeugung publiziert? Im ersten Teil meiner Arbeit werde ich mich mit dem Bertelsmann Verlag beschäftigen, indem ich zuerst einen kleinen Abriss zu dessen Geschichte gebe und die Untersuchungsergebnisse der „Unabhängigen Historischen Kommission zur Erforschung der Geschichte des Hauses Bertelsmann im Dritten Reich“ (UHK) vorstelle. Jedoch wird dabei der Schwerpunkt meiner Ausführungen auf dem Verlagsprogramm liegen, wobei ich eine Auswahl der von der UHK untersuchten Bertelsmann-Werke aus den Bereichen Theologie und Belletristik vorstellen möchte und versuchen werde, deren antisemitischen Inhalt durch entsprechende Zitate nachzuweisen und zu bestätigen. Der zweite Teil meiner Darstellung wird sich dem J. F. Lehmanns Verlag und seinem „Beitrag“ zum Dritten Reich widmen. [...]

Many students have written concerning the white readers and buyers of the Harlem Renaissance, yet through the interval many black writers, publishers, and editors labored to foster a cadre of African American readers, or within the poet Sterling Brown’s phrases, a “reading folk.” Black newspapers featured columns that reviewed the most recent African American fiction. Magazines held writing contests to induce black readers to take part within the literary tradition. via newspapers, journals, and anthologies, writers equivalent to James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, and Gwendolyn Bennett spoke on to their fellow African american citizens to domesticate curiosity in literature and the highbrow instruments for studying it.

In The Harlem Renaissance and the belief of a brand new Negro Reader, Shawn Anthony Christian argues that print-based addresses to African americans are a defining yet understudied element of the Harlem Renaissance. specifically among 1919 and 1930, those writers promoted diversified racial illustration as a attribute of “good literature” either to express black literacy and to foster black readership. Drawing on study from print tradition reports, histories of racial uplift, and stories of modernism, Christian demonstrates the significance of this specialise in the African American reader in influential periodicals similar to The quandary and celebrated anthologies corresponding to the hot Negro. Christian illustrates that the force to advance and aid black readers used to be crucial within the poetry, fiction, and drama of the era.

A humorous and exciting background of published books as informed via absurd moments within the lives of authors and printers, amassed via television’s favourite rare-book professional from HISTORY’s hit sequence Pawn Stars.

Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been seen as one of many maximum achievements of human innovation. however the march of growth hasn’t been delicate; downright weird and wonderful is extra love it. Printer’s errors chronicles many of the strangest and so much funny episodes within the background of Western printing, and makes transparent that we’ve succeeded regardless of ourselves. Rare-book professional Rebecca Romney and writer J. P. Romney take us from monasteries and museums to public sale homes and libraries to introduce curious episodes within the heritage of print that experience had a profound influence on our world.

Take, for instance, the Gutenberg Bible. whereas the booklet is considered the 1st revealed paintings within the Western global, Gutenberg’s identify doesn’t look wherever on it. at the present time, Johannes Gutenberg is well-known because the father of Western printing. yet for the 1st few hundred years after the discovery of the printing press, not anyone knew who revealed the 1st publication. This long-standing secret took researchers down a labyrinth of historical records and libraries, and unearthed stunning info, similar to the truth that Gutenberg’s financier sued him, repossessed his printing apparatus, and commenced his personal printing company in a while. finally the 1st revealed booklet was once tracked to the library of Cardinal Mazarin in France, and Gutenberg’s forty-two-line Bible used to be eventually credited to him, therefore making sure Gutenberg’s identify will be remembered by way of middle-school scholars worldwide.

Like the works of Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, and Ken Jennings, Printer’s Error is a rollicking journey in the course of the annals of time and the published word.

by way of generating literature in nontraditional forms—books made up of cardboard trash, posters in subway stations, miniature purchasing baggage, electronic guides, or even children’s toys—Chileans have made and circulated literary items in defiance of country censorship and self sufficient of capitalist definitions of price. within the exertions of Literature Jane D. Griffin reports novice and noncommercial sorts of literary construction in Chile that originated based on authoritarian nation politics and feature received momentum through the postdictatorship interval. She argues that such kinds improve a version of cultural democracy that differs from and occasionally contradicts the version recommended through the country and the market.

By reading replacement literary courses, Griffin recasts the seventeen-year Pinochet dictatorship as a time of editorial experimentation regardless of frequent cultural oppression and exhibits how grassroots cultural activism has challenged government-approved company publishing versions in the course of the postdictatorship interval. Griffin’s paintings additionally issues to the growing to be value of autogestión, or home made cultural creation, the place participants mix artisanal kinds with new applied sciences to make and proportion inventive paintings on a world scale.

Head Off the Books during this number of newspaper columns, the place J. Peder Zane makes use of vintage and modern literature to discover American tradition and politics. The booklet evaluation editor for the Raleigh, North Carolina information & Observer from 1996 to 2009, Zane demonstrates that solid books are crucial for knowing ourselves and the realm round us. the only hundred and thirty columns collected in Off the Books locate that candy spot the place literature’s everlasting values meet the day’s present occasions. jointly they provide a literary evaluation of the guidelines, concerns, and occasions shaping our culture—from Sep 11 and the fight for homosexual rights to the decline of excessive tradition and the increase of sensationalism and solipsism. As they plumb and draw from the paintings of top writers—from William Faulkner, Knut Hamsun, and Eudora Welty to Don DeLillo, Lydia Millet, and Philip Roth—these columns make an issue not only concerning the excitement of books, yet approximately their very necessity in our lives and culture.

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Seit japanische Comics mit „Sailor Moon“ und „Dragon Ball“ die westliche Welt im Sturm erobert haben, versuchen sich immer mehr deutsche Manga- und Comicfans am Handwerk ihrer fernöstlichen Vorbilder. Dennoch werden D-Manga nur schlecht vom Publikum angenommen.
Die vorliegende Magisterarbeit liefert dazu eine kritische examine über die Entwicklung des Manga in Deutschland und die Aussichten auf Ausbildung und Beruf im D-Manga-Geschäft. Gleichzeitig werden Vermarktungsstrategien unter wissenschaftlichen Aspekten betrachtet und Ansätze zur Optimierung dieser entwickelt.
Die realistische Darstellung und ausführlichen Erklärungen erleichtern auch dem Laien den Einstieg in den neuen und stetig wachsenden Zweig der Verlagsbranche.

Publishing, enhancing, and Reception is a set of twelve essays honoring Professor Donald H. Reiman, who moved to the college of Delaware in 1992. The essays, written by means of associates, scholars, and collaborators, replicate the scholarly pursuits that outlined Reiman’s lengthy occupation. Mirroring the point of interest of Reiman’s paintings in the course of his years at Carl H. Pforzheimer Library in big apple and as lead editor of Shelley and his Circle, 1773–1822 (Harvard collage Press), the essays during this assortment discover authors resembling Mary Shelley, William Hazlitt, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley; additionally, they ascertain the continued impression of Reiman’s writings within the fields of modifying and British Romanticism. starting from issues akin to Byron’s dating together with his writer John Murray and the analyzing practices within the Shelley circle to Rudyard Kipling’s reaction to Shelley’s politics, those essays draw on a blinding number of released and manuscript resources whereas attractive at once with lots of Reiman’s so much influential theories and arguments.

in the course of the lens of a background of fabric tradition mediated by means of an item, Angelica's e-book and the realm of analyzing in past due Renaissance Italy investigates facets of women's lives, tradition, rules and the background of the booklet in early glossy Italy.

Inside a badly broken replica of Straparola's 16th-century paintings, Piacevoli Notti, obtained in a Florentine old store in 2010, an inscription is located, attributing possession to a definite Angelica Baldachini. the invention units in movement a sequence of inquiries, deploying wisdom approximately calligraphy, orthography, linguistics, dialectology and the socio-psychology of writing, to bare the individual in the back of the identify. Focusing as a lot at the attainable proprietor as upon the object owned, Angelica's booklet examines the genesis of the Piacevoli Notti and its many variations, together with the single in query. The intertwined tales of the e-book and its proprietor are set opposed to the backdrop of a Renaissance global, nonetheless imperfectly understood, during which literature and interpreting have been topic to regimes of regulate; and the recent info throws elements of this international into additional aid, specifically in regard to women's involvement with studying, books and data. The inquiry yields unforeseen insights in regards to the common sense of unintended discovery, the character of proof, and the project of the arts in a time of worldwide crisis.

Angelica's ebook and the area of examining in overdue Renaissance Italy is a thought-provoking learn for any student of early glossy Europe and its culture.

here's a thorough serious re-assessment of the Edwardian grasp of the darkly funny brief tale, Saki (the pen identify of Hector Hugh Munro, 1870–1916). Saki the satirist always rebelled opposed to yet depended upon the area of H.H. Munro, the gentleman bachelor. In reassessing the significance of post–Wilde sexuality, anti-suffragist emotions, and attitudes in the direction of Jews and Slavs in Saki’s oeuvre, it turns into transparent that the fiction of Saki displays a fervid imperial masculinity in Britain as global struggle I approached. the stress among rebellious sexual politics and pro-patriarchy, nationalist perspectives in Saki’s fiction displays a time whilst the outdated, manly, bourgeois traditions of coming domestic from paintings to “the angel of the fireplace” and protecting King and nation out of the country more and more clashed with new sexual identities, women’s agitation for the vote, and the turning out to be presence of non–British Others within the public imagination.