Media ecologies of literature.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bayerlipp, Susanne, editor.

Haekel, Ralf, editor.

Schlegel, Johannes, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Media studies--Germany.

Media studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book explores the media ecologies of literature - the ways in which a literary text is interwoven in its material, technical, performative, praxeological, affective, and discursive network and which determine how it is experienced and interpreted. Through novel approaches to the complex, contingent and interdependent environments of literature, this volume demonstrates how questions about the mediality of literature - particularly in the wake of digitization - shed a new light on our understanding of textuality, reading, platforms and reception processes. By drawing on recent developments in advanced media theory, Media Ecologies of Literature emphasizes the productivity of innovative re-conceptualizations of literature as a medium in its own right. In an intentionally wide historical scope, the essays engage with literary texts from the Romantic to the contemporary period, from Charlotte Smith and Oscar Wilde to A. L. Kennedy and Mark Z. Danielewski, from the traditionally printed novel to audiobooks and reading apps..

Contents:

I. Reading/Media/Theory

From Work to Text Revisited: 'Reading' and the Trajectory from Literature to Media Theory / Christoph Reinfandt

Media Theory as Book Theory: From the Technologies of Writing to the Materialities of Reading / Alexander Starre

The Poetics of Etcetera: A Materialist-Semiotic Reading of George Orwell's Literary Lists / Ralph Pordzik

Invisible Thresholds: Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station / Rieke Jordan

II. Material/Designs/Techniques

The Cyclography of Literature / Mirna Zeman

Flipping, Flicking, Turning: Cultural Practices of Reading in B.S. Johnson, Alan Ayckbourn, and Mark Z. Danielewski / Sabine Zubarik

Craftsmen versus Dandies: Designing the Scene of Reading through Aestheticism and Arts & Crafts / Balazs Keresztes

III. Digital/Spaces/Platforms

Remediations of Canonized Literary Texts in the Digital Space: From Paratextuality to Hypermedia / Zita Farkas

Reading Listening Interfaces: Reconfiguring Reading in the Age of Digital Platforms / Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen

Reading Player One: Interfaces Between Video Games and Literature / Sebastian Domsch

IV. Coda

Towards a Media Ecology of Literature: The Case of Romanticism / Ralf Haekel

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501383885

1501383884

9781501383908

1501383906

9781501383892

1501383892

OCLC:

1350640185

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9781501383908 doi.