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Author Pressman, Jessica, author

Title Digital modernism : making it new in new media / Jessica Pressman
Published New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages) : illustrations
Series Modernist Literature & Culture ; 21
Modernist literature & culture.
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.
Modernism (Literature)
Electronic publications.
Literature and technology.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Electronic publications
Hypertext literature
Literature and technology
Modernism (Literature)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199937097
0199937095
9780199352623
0199352623