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Book Presence in a Digital Age

Editat de Professor Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Dr. Kári Driscoll, Dr. Jessica Pressman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 iun 2018
Contrary to the apocalyptic pronouncements of paper media's imminent demise in the digital age, there has been a veritable surge of creative reimaginings of books as bearers of the literary. From typographic experiments (Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts) to accordion books (Anne Carson's Nox), from cut ups (Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes) to collages (Graham Rawle's Woman's World), from erasures (Mary Ruefle's A Little White Shadow) to mixups (Simon Morris's The Interpretations of Dreams), print literature has gone through anything but a slow, inevitable death. In fact, it has re-invented itself materially.Starting from this idea of media plurality, Book Presence in a Digital Age explores the resilience of print literatures, book art, and zines in the late age of print from a contemporary perspective, while incorporating longer-term views on media archeology and media change. Even as it focuses on the materiality of books and literary writing in the present, Book Presence also takes into consideration earlier 20th-century "moments" of media transition, developing the concepts of presence and materiality as analytical tools to perform literary criticism in a digital age. Bringing together leading scholars, artists, and publishers, Book Presence in a Digital Age offers a variety of perspectives on the past, present, and future of the book as medium, the complex relationship of materiality to virtuality, and of the analog to the digital.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501321184
ISBN-10: 1501321188
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 10 color illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Combines interviews with digital culture scholars, book artists, graphic designers, and writers with academic essays from a variety of perspectives

Notă biografică

Kiene Brillenburg Wurth is Professor of Literature and Comparative Media at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and project leader of the VIDI project "Back to the Book" funded by the Dutch Research Council. She is the author of Musically Sublime: Infinity, Indeterminacy, Irresolvability (2009) and the editor of Between Page and Screen: Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace (2012).Kári Driscoll is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.Jessica Pressman is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, USA. She is the author of Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media (2014), co-author (with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass) of Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} (2015), and co-editor (with N. Katherine Hayles) of Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in a Postprint Era (2013).

Cuprins

List of PlatesList of FiguresNotes on Contributors1. Book Presence: An Introductory ExplorationKiene Brillenburg Wurth (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)I: Theory and Overview2. Pagina Abscondita: Reading the the Book's WakeJohn T. Hamilton (Harvard University, USA)3. From Codex to CodecsGarrett Stewart (University of Iowa, USA)4. Bookwork and Bookishness: An Interview with Brian Dettmer and Doug BeubeJessica Pressman (San Diego State University, USA)Section II: Media Changes and Materiality5. Infrathin Platforms: Print on Demand as Auto-FactographyHannes Bajohr (Berlin's Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany)6. Genre and Materiality: Autobiography and ZinesAnna Poletti (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)7. Doing Things with Literature in the Digital Age: Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller and the Material Turn in Literary StudiesLiedeke Plate (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)8. 'Book for Loan': S as Paradox on Media ChangeEmma De Vries and Yra van Dijk (Leiden University, the Netherlands)9. Book Presence and Feline Absence: A Conversation with Mark Z. DanielewskiKári Driscoll (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Inge van de Ven (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)Section III: Conceptual Possibilities of the Book10. Learn to Read DifferentlySimon Morris (Leeds Beckett University, UK)11. Emoji Dick and the Eponymous WhaleLisa Gitelman (New York University, USA)12. The Demediation of Alphabetic Writing in Memory Palace and Fugitive SparrowsKiene Brillenburg Wurth (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)13. Revisiting the Book-as-World: World-Making and Book Materiality in Only Revolutions and The AtlasInge van de Ven (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)14. Books as Archives: An Interview with Ernst van AlphenKiene Brillenburg Wurth (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)Index

Recenzii

Book Presence in a Digital Age is that rare volume that reads as both the culmination and anticipation of a field. It reflexively brings together some of the most compelling critics and artists thinking about 'the book' as medium and cultural artifact - and the individual conversations, explorations, and interventions that result would have alone made for a worthy volume. But the cumulative effect is much more than this, for collectively they articulate the questions that will inform scholarship and artistic practice for some years to come.
Operating in the force field between literary theory, comparative media studies, and new materialism, Book Presence in a Digital Age brims over with fresh, insightful, and nuanced explorations of the shifting contours of bookishness in the information age. By means of richly variegated points of entry, it demonstrates how print artifacts, far from hovering at the margins of the digital media ecology, have emerged as one of the defining laboratories for the elaboration of contemporary cultural forms.