Metamedia : American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization /

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Does literature need the book? With electronic texts and reading devices growing increasingly popular, the codex is no longer the default format of fiction. Yet as Alexander Starre shows in Metamedia, American literature has rediscovered the book as anartistic medium after the first ebook hype in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Starre, Alexander (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Amerikansk litteratur.
Digitala medier.
Böcker och läsning > historia.
Literature and society > United States > History > 21st century.
Digital media > United States.
Books and reading > United States.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Roman
Elektronisches Buch
Literature and society.
Digital media.
Books and reading.
American literature.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Medias numeriques > États-Unis.
Litterature americaine > 21e siecle > Histoire et critique.
USA
United States.
Förenta staterna.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From text to book
  • Reading metamedia
  • A bookish institution: the McSweeney's universe
  • Mark Z. Danielewski's complex codices
  • Convergences of a different order: immersive book fictions and literary bibliographers
  • Beyond trauma: the ethics of materialized memory in Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Conclusion: Print culture and the dialectic of digitization.

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