This essay situates the Nobel's institutional charisma within the “laureate position,” an older
but still relevant socio-institutional formation that frames literature as a “higher good”(as …

Following the selection of all-male shortlists for the 2009 and 2011 Miles Franklin Literary
Award, and the subsequent launch of the Stella Prize for women's writing in 2013, interest in …

Until early this year, an individual interested in, or professionally involved with, the twenty-
first-century world of books could travel the globe incessantly, attending book fairs, writers' …

The book provides a comprehensive descriptive history of the founding of the Saltire Society
in 1936, a Scottish cultural organization dedicated to promoting 'all that's best in Scottish …

This chapter examines the gatekeeping orientation, evaluative processes, and decision-
making role of the publisher's commissioning editor through a conceptual framework of …

Over the course of my doctoral research in publishing studies, I have become curious about
the kind of embedded live collaborative study I am undertaking, which is working towards …

This editorial introduction will briefly describe the context of the section “Novel Commodities”
and offer an editorial appraisal of their relevance for the idea of the novel-as-network. The …

Literary value assignment is most visible in the form of textual value judgments, especially in
literary criticism. These textual value judgments are often not visible in the case of literary …

Public libraries are cultural institutions with broad reaching stated values of inclusion
underpinning their service delivery and collection provision to engage and reflect their local …

In diesem Kapitel werden die Gatekeeping-Orientierung, die Bewertungsprozesse und die
Entscheidungsfunktion des Verlagslektors, der den Auftrag erteilt, anhand eines …