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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Book presence: an introductory exploration / Kiene Brillenburg Wurth -- Pagina abscondita : reading in the book's wake / John Hamilton -- From codex to codecs / Garrett Stewart -- Bookwork and bookishness. An interview with Doug Beube and Brian Dettmer / Jessica Pressman -- Infrathin platforms : print on demand as auto-factography / Hannes Bajohr -- Genre and materiality : autobiography and zines /Anna Poletti -- Doing things with literature in a digital age : Italo Calvino's If On A Winter's Night A Traveller and the material turn in literary studies / Liedeke Plate -- "Book for loan" : S as paradox on media change / Emma De Vries and Yra Van Dijk -- Book presence and feline absence : a conversation with Mark Z. Danielewski / Kári Driscoll and Inge Van De Ven -- Learn to read differently / Simon Morris -- Emoji Dick and the eponymous whale / Lisa Gitelman -- The demediation of alphabetic writing in Memory palace and Fugitive sparrows / Kiene Brillenburg Wurth -- Revisiting the book-as-world : world-making and book materiality in only revolutions and the atlas / Inge Van De Ven -- Books as archives : an interview with Ernst Van Alphen / Kiene Brillenburg Wurth |
| Summary |
"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. It does so within both a contemporary and a historical perspective: even as it focuses on the materiality of books as literary writing in the present, it considers these present developments in the light of earlier "moments" of media transition: from the invention of the printing press to the gramophone, radio, and the movies, the future of the book has been called into question since the early modern era. Bringing together leading scholars, artists, and publishers, Book Presence in a Digital Age 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Books -- History.
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Books and reading -- History
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Literature and technology.
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Media studies.
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Book design.
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Literary studies: from c 1900.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
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Books
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Books and reading
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Literature and technology
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brillenburg Wurth, Kiene, editor.
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Driscoll, Kári, editor.
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Pressman, Jessica, editor.
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| LC no. |
2018037475 |
| ISBN |
9781501321207 |
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150132120X |
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9781501321191 |
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1501321196 |
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9781501321214 |
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1501321218 |
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