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Best books on literature and technology
Books in the digital age
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Digital humanities and experimental fiction
Digital humanities and literature
Digital preservation in literature
Digital transformation in publishing
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Experimental literature
Experimental storytelling and technology
Fiction and digital preservation
Film studies and literature
How fiction engages with technological change
How media changes storytelling
Literary archives and technology
Literary engagement with media
Literary responses to digital culture
Literature and digital disruption
Literature in the age of screens
Literature on media evolution
Media history in fiction
Media studies and literary analysis
Media technology and literature
Media theory and contemporary fiction
Post-print literature
Print hegemony in literature
Print vs. digital media
Speculative media history
The death of print?
The digital shift in literary studies
The future of books in a digital world
The impact of digital media on fiction
The impact of technology on writing
The intersection of literature and technology
Product details
- ISBN 9781625345998
- Weight: 390g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 21 Dec 2021
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Technological innovation has long threatened the printed book, but ultimately, most digital alternatives to the codex have been onscreen replications. While a range of critics have debated the benefits and dangers of this media technology, contemporary and avant-garde writers have offered more nuanced considerations.
Taking up works from Andy Warhol, Kevin Young, Don DeLillo, and Hari Kunzru, Archival Fictions considers how these writers have constructed a speculative history of media technology through formal experimentation. Although media technologies have determined the extent of what can be written, recorded, and remembered in the immediate aftermath of print's hegemony, Paul Benzon argues that literary form provides a vital means for critical engagement with the larger contours of media history. Drawing on approaches from media poetics, film studies, and the digital humanities, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how authors who engage technology through form continue to imagine new roles for print literature across the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Taking up works from Andy Warhol, Kevin Young, Don DeLillo, and Hari Kunzru, Archival Fictions considers how these writers have constructed a speculative history of media technology through formal experimentation. Although media technologies have determined the extent of what can be written, recorded, and remembered in the immediate aftermath of print's hegemony, Paul Benzon argues that literary form provides a vital means for critical engagement with the larger contours of media history. Drawing on approaches from media poetics, film studies, and the digital humanities, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates how authors who engage technology through form continue to imagine new roles for print literature across the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
