Book, Text, Medium: Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age (Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture)
Cambridge University Press, 8/19/2021
EAN 9781108819688, ISBN10: 1108819680
Paperback, 256 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Book, Text, Medium: Cross Sectional Reading for a Digital Age utilizes codex history, close reading, and language philosophy to assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today's e-books. It examines what happens to the reading experience in the twenty-first century when the original concept of a book is still held in the mind of a reader, if no longer in the reader's hand. Leading critic Garrett Stewart explores the play of mediation more generally, as the concept of book moves from a manufactured object to simply the language it puts into circulation. Framed by digital poetics, phonorobotics, and the rising popularity of audiobooks, this study sheds new light on both the history of reading and the negation of legible print in conceptual book art.
Prospectus
Intro\Retro
Part I. The Hold of the Codex
1. Bibliographics
2. Platformatics
Part II. The Grip of Inscription
3. Reading In
4. Reading Out
Part III. The Give of Medium
5. Phrasing the Sayable
6. Between Language and Text
Parting Words.