Book, text, medium : cross-sectional reading for a digital age / Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Garrett, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture.

Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books and reading--Philosophy.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Book, Text, Medium: Cross Sectional Reading for a Digital Age utilizes codex history, close reading, and language philosophy to assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today's e-books. It examines what happens to the reading experience in the twenty-first century when the original concept of a book is still held in the mind of a reader, if no longer in the reader's hand. Leading critic Garrett Stewart explores the play of mediation more generally, as the concept of book moves from a manufactured object to simply the language it puts into circulation. Framed by digital poetics, phonorobotics, and the rising popularity of audiobooks, this study sheds new light on both the history of reading and the negation of legible print in conceptual book art.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Dec 2020).

ISBN:

1-108-89255-8

1-108-88306-0

1-108-87621-8