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Biographical note
Claire Squires is Professor of Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling. Her publications include Marketing Literature: the Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain and as co-editor The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Vol 7: The Twentieth Century and Beyond. With Beth Driscoll, she is co-founder of Ullapoolism.Beth Driscoll is Associate Professor of Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Her books include The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (2014) and, with Kim WiIlkins and Lisa Fletcher, Genre Worlds (2022). With Claire Squires, she is the co-founder of Ullapoolism.
<p>âThis not-quite-so-hardboiled neo-noir potboiler is your all-access all-in pass to the backrooms and afterparties of the sprawling Frankfurt Book Fair. But Driscoll and Squiresâ Kabuff is more than just a cabinet of curiosities: the essays and accumulated ancillary material combine to create a seriously playful and playfully serious exploration of the often inscrutable world of the international book trade, where language, commerce, and cultural capital all collide. With fiction, criticism, and discourses on method all part of the exhibit, all thatâs missing is the Prosecco.â â Matthew Kirschenbaum, author of <em>Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage</em> (2021)</p> <p>â<em>The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition</em> is a refreshingly joyful and playful intervention in the book history and publishing studies worlds, showing what can be gained from applying academic tools to an experimental creative literary exercise. The serious purpose of this work is that the experimental techniques open up a way of talking about power dynamics, politics, and identity that can otherwise remain unaddressed. We need this kind of innovation, irreverence, and inspiration.â â Claire Battershill, author of <em>Women and Letterpress Printing: Gendered Impressions</em> (2022)</p> âA remarkable scholarly volume âŚ. It wields the tools of high theory, at the conflux of art and philosophy, to expand the possibilities of humanities and social sciences research. A perfect accompaniment for a glass of wine and a sausage while waiting for a train at the Hauptbahnhof.â â Prof. Dr. Theobald JĂźrgen Marx-Voss von Adorno, author of numerous books âI have read everything worth reading about the Frankfurt Book Fair and the school named after it. And now I have read this book, too. The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition is a mash-up: Bookfair Murders meets The Russia House meetsâŻDialektik der Aufklärung.âŻA masterpiece!â â a publishing insider
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Claire Squires is Professor of Publishing Studies at the University of Stirling. Her publications include Marketing Literature: the Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain and as co-editor The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Vol 7: The Twentieth Century and Beyond. With Beth Driscoll, she is co-founder of Ullapoolism.Beth Driscoll is Associate Professor of Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Her books include The New Literary Middlebrow: Tastemakers and Reading in the Twenty-First Century (2014) and, with Kim WiIlkins and Lisa Fletcher, Genre Worlds (2022). With Claire Squires, she is the co-founder of Ullapoolism.