Research Catalog

Title

Book presence in a digital age / edited by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Kári Driscoll, and Jessica Pressman.

Publication

• New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
• ©2018

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Brillenburg Wurth, Kiene
• Driscoll, Kári
• Pressman, Jessica

Description

xiii, 260 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

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"--

Subject

• Books > History
• Books and reading > History
• Literature and technology
• Books
• Books and reading

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 19-967

ISBN

• 9781501321184
• 1501321188

LCCN

2017055546

OCLC

1005125095

Title

Book presence in a digital age / edited by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Kári Driscoll, and Jessica Pressman.

Publisher

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Brillenburg Wurth, Kiene, editor.

Driscoll, Kári, editor.

Pressman, Jessica, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Book presence in a digital age New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 9781501321207 (DLC) 2018037475

Research Call Number

JFE 19-967