Literature in the digital age : an introduction

Author

• Hammond, Adam

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Language

English

ISBN

9781107615076

Series

Subject(s)

• COMPUTER LITERACY
• LITERATURE-21 ST CENTURY-HISTORY AND CRITICISM-THEORY, ETC.
• ONLINE AUTHORSHIP

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 207-226. Index: p. 227-233

Abstract

Literature in a Digital Age: An Introduction guides readers through the most salient theoretical, interpretive, and creative possibilities opened up by the shift to digital literary forms such as e-books, digital archives, and electronic literature. While Digital Humanities (DH) has been hailed as the 'next big thing' in literary studies, many students and scholars remain perplexed as to what a DH approach to literature entails, and skeptical observers continue to see literature and the digital world as fundamentally incompatible. In its argument that digital and traditional scholarship should be placed in dialogue with each other, this book contextualizes the advent of the digital in literary theory, explores the new questions readers can ask of texts when they become digitized, and investigates the challenges that fresh forms of born-digital fiction pose to existing models of literary analysis.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xx, 233 p.

Dimension

23 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Is Literature Dying in the Digital Age? The digital medium and its message --
Medium shifts: literary thought in media history --
Digitization. The universal library --
Digital editions and the complexity of remediation --
Quantitative approaches to the literary --
Born Digital. Short-circuiting the publication process --
Interactivity: revolution and evolution in narrative --
Literature in the digital master medium --
Print in the Digital Age.

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