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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,
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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