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An analysis of the role of baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics in technotexts, reframing critical debate of contemporary experiments in literary practice in the late age of print. Works by Jonathan Safran Foer, Chris Ware and David Clark are investigated alongside other authors and media such as digital media, film, visual art and interface design.
About the author
Elise Takehana, assistant professor of English studies, teaches writing and twentieth-century and twenty-first-century literature at Fitchburg State University. Her research interests include composition and rhetoric, media studies, aesthetics, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century text production. She is currently researching baroque aesthetics and their application across contemporary print and digital literature. Forthcoming articles by Professor Takehana include 'Prying open the oyster: Creating a digital learning space from the Robert Cormier Archive' in The ALAN Review and 'The shape of thought: Humanity in digital, literary texts' in Comunicazioni sociali. Recent articles include 'Can you murder a novel?' in Hybrid Pedagogy, 'Baroque computing: Interface and the subject-object divide' in Design, Mediation and the Post-Human (Lexington Books), and 'Porous boundaries in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: Anticipating a digital composition and subjectivity' in Cross Culture Studies.
Summary
An analysis of the role of baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics in technotexts, reframing critical debate of contemporary experiments in literary practice in the late age of print. Works by Jonathan Safran Foer, Chris Ware and David Clark are investigated alongside other authors and media such as digital media, film, visual art and interface design.
