Live Literature : The Experience and Cultural Value of Literary Performance Events from Salons to Festivals Intro Series Editors Preface Acknowledgments Praise for Live Literature Contents 1 Prologue: Live in a Library 2 Speaking of Writing This: What Why Where How Greeting Plotting Point(s) of View Live Literature: Some Contemporary Scene Setting Live Literature: A Backstory Choice Bombardment: Digitalisation and Curation The Science of Experience in a Digital World: Attention Liveness Performance Value Literature Beyond the Book Listening Bodies: New Perspectives on Literature and Readers Authors as Performers Reading vs. Performance vs. Listening So Whats New 3 The Hay Festival: The Remote Welsh Field That Stages the Global Publishing Industry Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four 4 Polari Salon: A Literary Cabaret with an Activist Twist 5 Experiential Literary Ethnography: A Creative Approach to Revealing Cultural Value Experiential Literary Ethnography: A Summary Crafting Evocation: A Lesson from Dewey Ethnographic Ancestry: Wrangles Over Writing Culture Literary Cultural Research: A Sketch of Its Evolution Existing Live Literature Research Ethnography and Contemporary Literary Culture Now Talking of…: Communication Studies Orality the Ethnography of Speaking The Performative Turn: Ritual Liminality Communitas Evocative Writing Beyond Tasteless Theories: The Bodily and Sensory Turns Liveness Time Attention Experientialism Emotional Brains: The Revolutionary Neuroscience of Emotion Implications for Impact and Value Aesthetics Experience Sociality Transformation Practical Application: Proving Cultural Value Currents in Audience Research Modes of Measurement Cultural Value Assessments Experiential Literary Ethnography: Limitations and Qualifications.