{"product_id":"9781501360978","title":"Book Presence in a Digital Age","description":"\u003ch1\u003eBook Presence in a Digital Age\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eKiene Brillenburg Wurth | Kári Driscoll | Jessica Pressman\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Science \/ Media Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eContrary to the apocalyptic pronouncements of paper media's imminent demise in the digital age, there has been a veritable surge of creative reimaginings of books as bearers of the literary. From typographic experiments (Mark Z. Danielewski's \u003ci\u003eHouse of Leaves\u003c\/i\u003e, Steven Hall's \u003ci\u003eThe Raw Shark Texts\u003c\/i\u003e) to accordion books (Anne Carson's \u003ci\u003eNox\u003c\/i\u003e), from cut ups (Jonathan Safran Foer's \u003ci\u003eTree of Codes\u003c\/i\u003e) to collages (Graham Rawle's \u003ci\u003eWoman's World\u003c\/i\u003e), from erasures (Mary Ruefle's \u003ci\u003eA Little White Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e) to mixups (Simon Morris's \u003ci\u003eThe Interpretations of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e), print literature has gone through anything but a slow, inevitable death. In fact, it has re-invented itself materially.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStarting from this idea of media plurality, \u003ci\u003eBook Presence in a Digital Age\u003c\/i\u003e explores the resilience of print literatures, book art, and zines in the late age of print from a contemporary perspective, while incorporating longer-term views on media archeology and media change. Even as it focuses on the materiality of books and literary writing in the present, \u003ci\u003eBook Presence \u003c\/i\u003ealso takes into consideration earlier 20th-century \"moments\" of media transition, developing the concepts of presence and materiality as analytical tools to perform literary criticism in a digital age. Bringing together leading scholars, artists, and publishers, \u003ci\u003eBook Presence in a Digital Age\u003c\/i\u003e offers a variety of perspectives on the past, present, and future of the book as medium, the complex relationship of materiality to virtuality, and of the analog to the digital.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKiene Brillenburg Wurth \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Literature and Comparative Media at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and project leader of the VIDI project “Back to the Book” funded by the Dutch Research Council. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMusically Sublime: Infinity, Indeterminacy, Irresolvability \u003c\/i\u003e(2009) and the editor of \u003ci\u003eBetween Page and Screen: Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace \u003c\/i\u003e(2012).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKári Driscoll\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Pressman \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, USA. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDigital Modernism: Making It New in New Media \u003c\/i\u003e(2014), co-author (with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass) of \u003ci\u003eReading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), and co-editor (with N. Katherine Hayles) of \u003ci\u003eComparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in a Postprint Era \u003c\/i\u003e(2013).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26 December 2019\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781501360978\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e280\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e13.92\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332748705932,"sku":"9781501360978","price":43.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_89765d00-f9f0-4618-8911-5e1e3df1b787.jpg?v=1783605434","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781501360978","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}