Media Ecologies of Literature

This book explores the media ecologies of literature - the ways in which a literary text is interwoven in its material, technical, performative, praxeological, affective, and discursive network and which determine how it is experienced and interpreted. Through novel approaches to the complex, contingent and interdependent environments of literature, this volume demonstrates how questions about the mediality of literature - particularly in the wake of digitization - shed a new light on our understanding of textuality, reading, platforms and reception processes. By drawing on recent developments in advanced media theory, Media Ecologies of Literature emphasizes the productivity of innovative re-conceptualizations of literature as a medium in its own right. In an intentionally wide historical scope, the essays engage with literary texts from the Romantic to the contemporary period, from Charlotte Smith and Oscar Wilde to A. L. Kennedy and Mark Z. Danielewski, from the traditionally printed novel to audiobooks and reading apps.

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• Authors: Susanne Bayerlipp, Ralf Haekel, Johann Schlegel
• Assisted by: Susanne Bayerlipp (Editor), Ralf Haekel (Editor), Johannes Schlegel (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781501383878
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-8387-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies; Media Studies, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, german, Material Culture, Literary theory, Impact of science & technology on society, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000