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The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture: Medium, Object, Metaphor

By Heike Schaefer , Alexander Starre

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2019
ISBN
978-3-030-22544-5, 978-3-030-22545-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3215284 bytes)
Series
New Directions in Book History
Edition
1st ed. 2019
Pages
XV, 277\281
Time added
2020-02-08 04:41:18
Literature; History of the Book; Contemporary Lite

Description

This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It examines how the use of and attitude toward the book form have changed in light of the digital transformation of American media culture. Situated at the crossroads of American studies, literary studies, book studies, and media studies, these essays show that a sustained focus on the medial and material formats of literary communication significantly expands our accustomed ways of doing cultural studies. Addressing the changing roles of authors, publishers, and readers while covering multiple bookish formats such as artists’ books, bestselling novels, experimental fiction, and zines, this interdisciplinary volume introduces readers to current transatlantic conversations on the history and future of the printed book. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 The Printed Book, Contemporary Media Culture, and American Studies (Heike Schaefer, Alexander Starre)....Pages 3-28 Front Matter ....Pages 29-29 The Books That Count: Big Data Versus Narrative in Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore and Joshua Cohen’s Book of Numbers (Regina Schober)....Pages 31-51 US Print Culture, Literary Narrative, and Slow Reading in the Age of Big Data: Steve Tomasula’s VAS: An Opera in Flatland (Antje Kley)....Pages 53-67 “Books and Books and Books … an Oasis of the Forbidden”: Writing and Print Culture as Metaphor and Medium for Survival in Margaret Atwood’s Novel The Handmaid’s Tale (Reingard M. Nischik)....Pages 69-86 Zines in the Library: Underground Communication and the Property Regimes of Book Culture (Janice Radway)....Pages 87-113 Front Matter ....Pages 115-115 The Book Between Media Convergence, Media Specificity, and Diverse Reading Communities in Present-Day US Culture (Christoph Bläsi)....Pages 117-137 Michael Cunningham’s The Hours: Homage to the Book in a Time of Media Transformation (Aleida Assmann)....Pages 139-154 “There’s Nothing Quite Like a Real Book”: Stop-Motion Bookishness (Jessica Pressman)....Pages 155-176 Front Matter ....Pages 177-177 Remediation, Oral Storytelling, and the Printed Book: The Stylistic Strategies of Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Fifty Year Sword (Alison Gibbons)....Pages 179-202 Book Design as Literary Strategy: Aka Morchiladze’s Novel Santa Esperanza and Its Poetics of Playful Storytelling (Monika Schmitz-Emans)....Pages 203-226 Authorial Impression and Remediation in Anne Carson’s Quasi-Artist’s Book Nox (Kiene Brillenburg Wurth)....Pages 227-251 Front Matter ....Pages 253-253 The Storied Book (Garrett Stewart)....Pages 255-264 Back Matter ....Pages 265-277

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