Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Modernist Literature & Culture ; 21 |
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Modernist literature & culture.
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Contents |
Close reading: Marshall McLuhan, from modernism to media studies -- Reading machines: machine poetry and excavatory reading in William Poundstone's electronic literature and Bob Brown's readies -- Speed reading: super-position and simultaneity in Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota and Ezra Pound's cantos -- Reading the database: narrative, database, and stream of consciousness -- Reading code: the hallucination of universal language from modernism to cyberspace -- Coda: Rereading: digital modernism in print, Mark Z. Danielewski's only revolutions |
Summary |
'Digital Modernism' examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies, subjectivities, and aesthetics, but this book provides an alternative genealogy |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Hypertext literature.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Electronic publications.
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Literature and technology.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Electronic publications
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Hypertext literature
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Literature and technology
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Modernism (Literature)
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780199937097 |
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0199937095 |
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9780199352623 |
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0199352623 |
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