英文摘要 |
In Taiwan, Literary Clique Journals may have played a role in shaping the literary canon, but poetry journals could hardly make themselves present in largescale or chain bookstores. Most of them existed in the mode of “small group communication,” in which the poets sent to each other their own publications as gifts or put them up for sale at the bookstores around college campuses. To understand the survival of the poetry journals, we make two special observations: 1) Their publication and issuance should not be viewed in the mode of mass communication but in that of inter-personal or small-group communication; 2) Their editorial planning and public relations were keys to breaking into the market-oriented publishing field of the 1990s. This article studies how the poetry journals have performed in the media during the past twenty years and examines how they have executed their editorial planning and how the planning has effected in the publishing field. It also studies the journals' public relations, applying Esman's “linkage theory” to analyze how these journals established and strengthened “linkages” with the media. Specifically, my study investigates how their PR strengthened the connections between readers and authors in the following activities: feature reportage in newspapers and other magazines, seminars, performances, and literary awards. |