Metamedia - American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture After Digitization

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 ebook hype in the late 1990s.

Summary

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 ebook hype in the late 1990s.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Starre
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781609383596
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-359-6
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Impressions; Impressions: Studies in the Art, Culture, and Future of Books; Impressions; Impressions: Studies in the Art, Culture, and Future of Books
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies