Book, Text, Medium - Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age

This study cuts across book arts and literary stylistics in a revisionary theory of language as medium in textual action.

List 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.

About the author

Garrett Stewart is James O. Freedman Professor of Letters at the University of Iowa. He has written five books each on literary analysis, art history, and film theory, most recently The One, Other, and Only Dickens (2018), Transmedium (2018), and Cinemachines (2020). Stewart was elected in 2010 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Summary

This book assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today's e-books. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working in the 21st century literary studies generally, in the relationships between the book and the digital age specifically.

Product details

• Authors: Garrett Stewart, Garrett (University of Iowa) Stewart
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781108819688
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81968-8
• No. of pages: 225
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Twenty-Fi; Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)