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Bring on the books for everybody : how literary culture became popular culture / Jim Collins.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.Description: 287 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780822345886 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0822345889 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822346067 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0822346060 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.0973 COL
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-275) and index.

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.

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