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Seeking out rare and precious texts, or book hunting, was a favorite pursuit of the Renaissance humanists, but the activity had been practiced with enthusiasm (and often guile) since antiquity. This paper discusses the phenomenon over time, looking at representative book hunters from Aulus Gellius (second century CE) to Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459), who was probably the most famous book hunter of them all. I will consider the discoveries of Catullus, Cicero's Letters to Atticus, and Apuleius as well as several of the most famous finds of Poggio himself, emhasizing in each case the circumstances and method of discovery, the importance of the find, and the fate of the discovered book. The paper will close with a brief epilogue on some modern book hunters.

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A concise edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Book, this book features the 51 articles from the Companion plus 3 brand new chapters in on affordable volume. The 54 chapters introduce readers to the fascinating world of book history. Including 21 thematic studies on topics such as writing systems, the ancient and the medieval book, and the economics of print, as well as 33 regional and national histories of 'the book', offering a truly globalsurvey of the book around the world, the Oxford History of the Book is the most comprehensive work of its kind. The three new articles,

Books --- Printing --- Book industries and trade --- History.

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El mercado de la literatura ha experimentado una notable transformación en las últimas décadas a causa de la proliferación de tres agentes principales: las editoriales independientes, los festivales literarios y las ferias del libro. Estos gatekeepers ocupan en el siglo XXI el lugar privilegiado de tasación del valor literario que antes atesoraban los grandes conglomerados, los premios y las academias. Sus políticas materiales y simbólicas están dirigidas a distintas "comunidades letradas" y fomentan valores como la oralidad, la bibliodiversidad, la igualdad, la profesionalización del sector creativo, la espectacularización del escritor y la performatividad de lo literario. No existe hasta la fecha un análisis integral y de conjunto sobre estos mediadores en el espacio iberoamericano como el que propone este libro, centrado en los modos de producción y circulación de la cultura literaria actual a través de estudios de caso. Su metodología, basada en lo que la autora denomina "crítica literaria del valor", utiliza la práctica para teorizar y problematizar la naturaleza de lo literario hoy, combinando la sociología de la literatura con el close reading, la teoría crítica, la filosofía, la antropología, la estadística, los estudios de género y decoloniales. El resultado es una extraordinaria fotografía en movimiento del estado actual de las literaturas en lengua castellana y de sus políticas de mercado.

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The existence of World Literature depends on specific processes, institutions, and actors involved in the global circulation of literary works. The contributions of this volume aim to pay attention to these multiple material dimensions of Latin American 20th and 21st century literatures. From perspectives informed by materialism, sociology, book studies, and digital humanities, the articles of this volume analyze the role of publishing houses, politics of translation, mediators and gatekeepers, allowing insights into the processes that enable books to cross borders and to be transformed into globally circulating commodities. The book focusses both on material (re)sources of literary archives, key actors in literary and cultural markets, prizes and book fairs, as well as on recent dimension of the digital age. Statements of some of the leading representatives of the global publishing world complement these analyses of the operations of selection and aggregation of value to literary texts.

Book industries and trade --- Publishers and publishing --- Translations --- Publishing