Book Presence in a Digital Age. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Kári Driscoll, and Jessica Pressman.
• Editors: Brillenburg Wurth, Kiene; Driscoll, Kári; Pressman, Jessica
• Contents: 9781501321207_web.pdf; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Plates; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Book Presence: An Introductory Exploration; I; II; III; Works cited; Part 1: Theory and Overview; Chapter 2: Pagina Abscondita: Reading in the Book's Wake; Notes; Works cited; Chapter 3: From Codex to Codecs; Volume 1: Reading time; Volume 2: Immersive reading and depth perception; Volume 3: Pages turned-or detourned; Volume 4: Book/s reading; Notes; Works cited; Chapter 4: Bookwork and Bookishness: An interview with Doug Beube and Brian Dettmer; Note Works citedPart 2: Media Changes and Materiality; Chapter 5: Infrathin Platforms: Print on Demand as Auto-Factography; Infrathin platforms: Gauss PDF, Troll Thread, 0x0a, Traumawien; "A genre unto itself"; Notes; Works cited; Chapter 6: Genre and Materiality: Autobiography and Zines; Autobiography: Genre or register?; Materiality and genre; Zines and the materiality of the frame; new beginnings: Confession by the light of digital media; YOU: The frame as a point of no return; Conclusion: The renewed importance of the material frame in a digital age; Notes; Works cited Chapter 7: Doing Things with Literature in a Digital Age: Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler and the Material Turn in Literary StudiesEmpirical oblivion5; Back to the work: The material turn in literary studies; Reading as a multisensory skill?; Conclusion: Taking things seriously; Notes; Works cited; Chapter 8: "Book for Loan": S. as Paradox of Media Change; The Ship of Theseus paradox; Bookish hermeneutics; Conclusion; Notes; Works cited; Chapter 9: Book Presence and Feline Absence: A Conversation with Mark Z. Danielewski; Notes; Works cited Part 3: Conceptual Possibilities of the BookChapter 10: Learn to Read Differently; Introduction; The Royal Road to the Unconscious, 2003; Utilizing Ed Ruscha's Royal Road Test as a readymade set of instructions; Re-writing Freud, 2005; Getting Inside Jack Kerouac's Head, 2010; Pigeon Reader, 2012; Conclusion; Works cited; Chaper 11: Emoji Dick and the Eponymous Whale; I; II; III; Notes; Works cited; Chaper 12: The Demediation of Writing in Memory Palace and Fugitive Sparrows; The end of writing and the end of times; Making writing appear as such; Literature, forgetfulness, and the future NotesWorks cited; Chaper 13: Revisiting the Book-as-World: World-Making and Book Materiality in Only Revolutions and The Atlas; World-making and the book-as-world; Journey to the covers of the earth: Vollmann trapped inside his Atlas; Around the world in 360 pages: Only Revolutions as a non-totalizable totality; Conclusion; Notes; Works cited; Chaper 14: Books as Archives: An Interview with Ernst van Alphen; Index; 2.pdf
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 028.0285; Media studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading; Book design; Social Science -- Media Studies; Literary Criticism -- Books & Reading; Literary studies: from c 1900; Books and reading -- Technological innovations; Books and reading -- Technological innovations -- Social aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501321191; 1501321196
• Related ISBNs: 1501321188; 9781501321184
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 26, 2018).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.