Comparative textual media : transforming the humanities in the postprint era / N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943- editor.

Pressman, Jessica, editor.

Series:

Electronic mediations ; v. 42.

Electronic mediations ; volume 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic information resources--Social aspects.

Electronic information resources.

Digital media--Social aspects.

Digital media.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

Summary:

For the past few hundred years, Western cultures have relied on print. When writing was accomplished by a quill pen, inkpot, and paper, it was easy to imagine that writing was nothing more than a means by which writers could transfer their thoughts to readers. The proliferation of technical media in the latter half of the twentieth century has revealed that the relationship between writer and reader is not so simple. From telegraphs and typewriters to wire recorders and a sweeping array of digital computing devices, the complexities of communications technology have made mediality a central concern of the twenty-first century. Despite the attention given to the development of the media landscape, relatively little is being done in our academic institutions to adjust. Primarily arguing for seeing print as a medium along with the scroll, electronic literature, and computer games, this volume examines the potential transformations if academic departments embraced a media framework. Ultimately, Comparative Textual Media offers new insights that allow us to understand more deeply the implications of the choices we, and our institutions, are making. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: making, critique: a media framework / N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman

Theories. Txtual Practice / Rita Raley

Mobile Narratives: Reading and Writing Urban Space with Location-Based Technologies / Adriana de Souza e Silva

The .txtual condition / Matthew G. Kirschenbaum

From A to Screen / Johanna Drucker

Practices. Bookrolls as Media / William A. Johnson

Dwarven Epitaphs: Procedural Histories in Dwarf Fortress / Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux

Reading Childishly?: A Codicology of the Modern Self / Patricia Crain

Print Culture (Other than Codex): Job Printing and Its Importance / Lisa Gitelman

Recursions. Medieval remediations / Jessica Brantley

Gilded Monuments: Shakespeare's Sonnets, Donne's Letters, and the Mediated Text / Thomas Fulton

Reading screens: comparative perspectives on computational poetics / John David Zuern

Reading exquisite_code: Critical Code Studies of Literature / Mark C. Marino.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816680030

0816680035

9780816680047

0816680043

OCLC:

840465543