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    Not your average reader: Interviewing literary agents, editors, and publishers

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    Authors
    Henningsgaard, Per
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Citation
    Henningsgaard, P. 2019. Not your average reader: Interviewing literary agents, editors, and publishers. Participations: Journal of audience and reception studies. 16 (1): pp. 663-679.
    Source Title
    Participations: journal of audience and reception studies
    Additional URLs
    http://www.participations.org/Volume%2016/Issue%201/31.pdf
    ISSN
    1749-8716
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    Remarks

    Copyright © 2019 The Author. First published in Participations journal.

    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75566
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    When readers are described as ‘average’ or ‘ordinary’, this is typically meant to exclude the reading experiences of literary scholars and professional critics, whose experiences dominate literary theory and criticism. But what of the reading experiences of literary agents, editors, and publishers? They are, of course, not your average reader; they are also undoubtedly ‘professional’ readers. Nonetheless, their engagement with books often more closely resembles the engagement of a fan rather than a critic. It is, therefore, remarkable that researchers of reading and publishing studies scholars have only rarely considered using interviews to engage with the narrated experiences and memories of literary agents, editors, and publishers. This article uses a case study – interviews with American publishing professionals who have contributed to the publication of local editions of books originally published in Australia – to reflect on the insights, which would not have been otherwise available, afforded by a research methodology that includes interviews. Interviews with authors typically concern a book’s origins, while interviews with readers concern its endings; perhaps interviews with publishing professionals can bridge these two states, as well as bringing together researchers of reading and publishing studies scholars.

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