Book presence in a digital age / edited by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Kári Driscoll and Jessica Pressman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brillenburg Wurth, Kiene., editor.

Driscoll, Kári, editor.

Pressman, Jessica, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Printing industry--Technological innovations.

Printing industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Summary:

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

List of Plates

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1. Book Presence: An Introductory Exploration

I: Theory and Overview. 2. Pagina Abscondita: Reading the the Book's Wake ; 3. From Codex to Codecs ; 4. Bookwork and Bookishness: An Interview with Brian Dettmer and Doug Beube

Section II: Media Changes and Materiality. 5. Infrathin Platforms: Print on Demand as Auto-Factography ; 6. Genre and Materiality: Autobiography and Zines ; 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 Studies ; 8. 'Book for Loan': S as Paradox on Media Change ; 9. Book Presence and Feline Absence: A Conversation with Mark Z. Danielewski

Section III: Conceptual Possibilities of the Book. 10. Learn to Read Differently ; 11. Emoji Dick and the Eponymous Whale ; 12. The Demediation of Alphabetic Writing in Memory Palace and Fugitive Sparrows ; 13. Revisiting the Book-as-World: World-Making and Book Materiality in Only Revolutions and The Atlas ; 14. Books as Archives: An Interview with Ernst van Alphen

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781501321191

1501321196

9781501321214

1501321218

9781501321207

150132120X

OCLC:

1057777599