Metamedia American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization |
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| Author:
| Starre, Alexander |
| Series title: | Impressions Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-60938-359-6 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2015 |
| Publisher: | University of Iowa Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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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 an artistic medium after the first e-book hype in the late 1990s. By fusing narrative and design, a number of "bibliographic" writers have created reflexive fictions--metamedia--that invite us to read printed formats in new...
More DescriptionDoes 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 an artistic medium after the first e-book hype in the late 1990s. By fusing narrative and design, a number of "bibliographic" writers have created reflexive fictions--metamedia--that invite us to read printed formats in new ways. Their work challenges ingrained theories and beliefs about literary communication and its connections to technology and materiality. Metamedia explores the book as a medium that matters and introduces innovative critical concepts to better grasp its narrative significance.