Media Ecologies of Literature

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2006

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781501383885

Related ISBNs:

9781501383878

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date of Addition:

11/02/22

Copyrighted By:

Mark Z. Danielewski. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Social Studies, Language Arts

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Edited by:

Susanne Bayerlipp

Edited by:

Ralf Haekel

Edited by:

Johannes Schlegel