In the Circle of Women’s Fiction: Culture of the Book Contexts in Luxury Women’s Magazines Cover Image

W kręgu literatury kobiecej: konteksty kultury książki w luksusowych magazynach dla pań
In the Circle of Women’s Fiction: Culture of the Book Contexts in Luxury Women’s Magazines

Author(s): Katarzyna Wodniak
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: “Bluszcz”; “Pani”; “Twój Styl”; monthly magazine; popular literature; the popularization of literature in the press; women’s press; literatura popularna; popularyzacja literatury w prasie; prasa kobieca

Summary/Abstract: The article indicates the role of luxury women’s monthly magazines “Twój Styl”, “Pani” and “Bluszcz” in motivating contacts with books and developing reading habits during the year of 2010. Discussed periodicals can be perceived as a medium presenting various literary and paraliterary texts directly on their pages and as a significant source of information and promotion of certain names, titles and genres using various types of criticism as well. That is why especially women’s periodicals create bestsellers and form the market of the popular female fiction.

  • Issue Year: 12/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 59-72
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish
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