Literature in contemporary media culture : technology, subjectivity, aesthetics / edited by Sarah J. Paulson, Anders Skare Malvik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Paulson, Sarah J., editor.

Malvik, Anders Skare, editor.

Series:

FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; Volume 2.

FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 2213-428X ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Digital media.

Popular culture.

Literature--Aesthetics.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does contemporary literature respond to the digitalized media culture in which it takes part? And how do we study literature in order to shed light on these responses? Under the subsections Technology, Subjectivity, and Aesthetics, Literature in Contemporary Media Culture sets out to answer these questions. The book shows how literature over the last decade has charted the impact of new technologies on human conduct. It explores how changes in literary production, distribution, and consumption can be correlated to changes in social practices more generally. And it examines how (and if) contemporary media culture affects our understanding of literary aesthetics. Addressing Scandinavian and Anglo-American poetry and fiction produced around the beginning of the present century, Literature in Contemporary Media Culture highlights both well-known and unfamiliar literary texts. It offers cross-disciplinary methodological tools and reading strategies for studying literary phenomena such as intermedial aesthetics, the autobiographical novel, conceptual literature, and digital poetry, all of which are prevalent across national borders at the outset of the twenty-first century. This book will be of interest to students and established scholars in the fields of literature, film and media studies, and visual studies, as well as to members of the general reading public.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Series editor's preface

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction

Technology

From acoustic trace to information materialized

Reading animated poetry between pragmapeia and prosopopeia

Words with cybernetic senses

Media ecology in the literal sense

Subjectivity

Roman and the mediality of biographical writing

Mediatization, self and literature

The literary magazine and the making of a writer

Aesthetics

Staging the present: Performativity and performance in Carl Frode Tiller’s Encircling

Refigurations of Walden

Transaesthetic temporalities

Showing seeing across media

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027267542

9027267545