Book, Text, Medium
Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age
Part of Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
- Author: Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa
- Date Published: August 2021
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108819688
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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.
Read more- Brings together book studies and the history of book arts with textual readings, literary theory, and the philosophy of language
- Makes direct connections between art history, including painting and conceptual sculpture, and the nuances of literary process in an age of digital poetics
- Develops an interdisciplinary concept of medium that challenges or augments many leading contemporary theories in the field
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'Garrett Stewart has produced a richly inclusive, nimbly attentive, celebration of the many dimensions in which reading is played out, across and between its different media and instruments, ear, eye and hand. It brilliantly diagnoses in the present conditions of reading, not a demise but an ongoing reprise of the many historical incarnations of 'bookhood'.' Steven Connor, University of Cambridge
See more reviews'Dazzlingly brilliant. … a great book [… of] grand ambitions and stunning achievements … an amazing accomplishment.' N. Katherine Hayles, Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
'… provide[s] an elevated treat for audiences with an appreciation for reading and literature. Recommended.' C. Huffaker, Choice
'… there is a great deal to enjoy …' John Cayley, Critical Inquiry
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- Date Published: August 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108819688
- length: 225 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 150 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.37kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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