Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age

This book explores the way that digital forms and methods are reconfiguring the foundational concepts of literary studies.

List of contents

Introduction Adam Hammond; 1. Data and the Discipline Yohei Igarashi; 2. Literary Change Ted Underwood; 3. The Canon Mark Algee-Hewitt; 4. Sound and Performance Marit J. MacArthur and Lee M. Miller; 5. The Archive Katherine Bode; 6. Editions Anna Mukamal, Claire Battershill and Helen Southworth; 7. Materiality Dennis Yi Tenen; 8. The Literary Marketplace Tully Barnett; 9. Fanfiction, Digital Platforms, and Social Reading Anna Wilson; 10. Narrative and Interactivity Emily Short; 11. Generated Literature Nick Montfort and Judy Heflin; 12. Literary Gaming Timothy Welsh; 13. The Printed Book in the Digital Age Inge van de Ven; 14. Literature's Audioptic Platform Garrett Stewart; 15. Critique Gabriel Hankins.

About the author

Adam Hammond is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Far Shore: Indie Games, Superbrothers, and the Making of Jett (2021), Literature in the Digital Age (2016), and co-author of Modernism: Keywords (2014). He is the editor of Cambridge Critical Concepts: Technology and Literature (2024). His work has appeared in Wired and The Globe and Mail and has been profiled by the BBC and CBC.

Summary

Literature has experienced two great medium shifts: from orality to writing, and from writing to printing. Today we are experiencing a third, from printed to digital forms. This book explores the way that this latest shift is reconfiguring the foundational concepts of literary studies: the canon, periodization, authorship, narrative, and beyond.

Foreword

This book explores the way that digital forms and methods are reconfiguring the foundational concepts of literary studies.

Product details

• Authors: Adam (University of Toronto) Hammond
• Assisted by: Adam Hammond (Editor), Hammond Adam (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2024
• EAN: 9781009349529
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0934952-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Electronic, holographic & video art, Digital, video and new media arts, Literary studies: from c 2000, 21st century literature; digital humanities