Book Presence In A Digital Age

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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.
  • | Author: Kiene Brillenburg Wurth|Kari Driscoll|Jessica Pressman, Kari Driscoll
  • | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
  • | Publication Date: Dec 26, 2019
  • | Number of Pages: 280 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback/Social Science
  • | ISBN-10: 1501360973
  • | ISBN-13: 9781501360978
Author:
Kiene Brillenburg Wurth|Kari Driscoll|Jessica Pressman, Kari Driscoll
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date:
Dec 26, 2019
Number of pages:
280 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback/Social Science
ISBN-10:
1501360973
ISBN-13:
9781501360978