Serialization in Literature Across Media and Markets (Routledge Focus) - Hardcover

Tanderup Linkis, Sara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 036760809X ISBN 13: 9780367608095

Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Serialization is an old narrative strategy and a form of publication that can be traced far back in literary history, yet serial narratives are as popular as ever. This book investigates a resurgence of serial narratives in contemporary literary culture.

Analyzing series as diverse as Mark Z. Danielewski’s experimental book series The Familiar; audiobook series by the Swedish streaming service Storytel; children’s books by Lemony Snicket and Philip Pullman and their adaptations into screen; and serial writing and reading on the writing site Wattpad, the book traces how contemporary series at once are shaped by literary tradition and develop the format according to the logics of new media and digital technologies.

The book sheds light on the interplay between the selected serials' narrative content and medial, social, and economic contexts, drawing on insights from literary studies, literary sociology, media studies, and cultural studies. Serialization in Literature Across Media and Markets thus contributes a unique and interdisciplinary perspective on a historical phenomenon that has proved ever more successful in contemporary media culture. It is a book for researchers and students of literature and media and for anyone who likes a good series and wants to understand why.

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About the Author

Sara Tanderup Linkis (born 1986), PhD in Comparative Literature, is a postdoc at Lund University, Sweden. Her research on serial narratives, transmediality, audiobooks, and multimodal literature is published in international journals as Narrative, Orbis Litterarum, and Paradoxa. She is the author of the monograph Memory, Intermediality, and Literature (Routledge, 2019).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036760809X
• ISBN 13: 9780367608095
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134