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The impeccable taste of a publisher: Literary prizes and cultural value from a publishing perspective

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 4, Page 423-436, August 2025.
Abstract The article discusses the complex relationship between publishers and literary prizes in terms of production, marketing, and the value of literary prizes. The main argument is that publishers are instrumental not only in the creation process of literary fiction receiving prizes but also in using the values adhered to awards and nominations for
Ann Steiner
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the linguistic coverage of OpenAlex: An assessment of metadata accuracy and completeness

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 6, Page 884-895, June 2025.
Abstract Clarivate's Web of Science (WoS) and Elsevier's Scopus have been for decades the main sources of bibliometric information. Although highly curated, these closed, proprietary databases are largely biased toward English‐language publications, underestimating the use of other languages in research dissemination.
Lucía Céspedes   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Joan Maragall per a infants i joves o com reinventar un clàssic

open access: yesHaidé, 2014
Estudiar l’obra de Joan Maragall que s’ha publicat per a nens i joves no només vol dir conèixer els poemes i proses que han semblat oportuns per a aquests lectors, sinó que suposa entendre les circumstàncies històriques i culturals que han empès l ...
Maria Pujol i Valls
doaj   +2 more sources

Literary Festivals as Makers of the Global Novel

open access: yesLiterature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT This article argues that literary festivals are crucial agents in the contemporary global literary landscape, actively shaping the ‘global novel’ and the ‘global writer’. It contends that traditional literary criticism has understudied the role of cultural market agents like festivals, emphasizing instead the globalization of the novelistic ...
Ana Gallego Cuiñas
wiley   +1 more source

“Thou liv’st to all that Read”: Reading the Paratext of William Cartwright’s Comedies, Tragi-Comedies, With other Poems (1651) as Early Modern Life Writing

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2014
This essay proposes to read the paratext of books published in seventeenth-century as a form of multi-perspective, multi-generic, and multi-modal of life writing, since information on the author is not only provided in chronological “Life of the Author ...
Sarah Herbe
doaj   +1 more source

Nourishing Catholic Souls in Post‐Tridentine Miracle Narratives☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 339-355, June 2025.
Abstract The period of Catholic reform witnessed the proliferation of printed works that narrated historical and contemporary miracles for the edification of a vernacular readership. This article examines the role of printed miracle narratives in stimulating interior Catholic devotional life through close examination of three Italian vernacular ...
Joshua Rushton
wiley   +1 more source

Spoilers as (Un)Wanted Information: How Reader’s Engagement with Paratextual Material Affects Wellbeing

open access: yesOpen Information Science, 2022
Engaging with a text allows one to enter a flow state through the actions or reading/viewing a narrative or event. Spoilers, which provide information about the text but bypassing the intended reading path as set out by the author, can serve to interrupt
Romaguera Gabriel
doaj   +1 more source

The counternarrative in early Pynchon: Race and power in “The Secret Integration”

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 1, Page 19-35, February 2025.
Abstract The issue of race and power in “The Secret Integration” requires re‐examination. Politically oriented readers have characterized the plot as forms of alignment with racism and segregation, whereas readers focusing on the esthetics and development of the authorship have to some degree recognized the role of the counternarrative in this early ...
Kristian Larsson
wiley   +1 more source

The Fairy Tale and Its Uses in Contemporary New Media and Popular Culture Introduction

open access: yesHumanities, 2016
Ever since the beginning of the 21st century, the fairy tale has not only become a staple of the small and silver screen around the globe, it has also migrated into new media, overwhelming audiences with imaginative and spectacular retellings along the ...
Claudia Schwabe
doaj   +1 more source

Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.
Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
wiley   +1 more source

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