Literature in the Digital Age: An Introduction

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Literature in a Digital Age: An Introduction guides readers through the most salient theoretical, interpretive, and creative possibilities opened up by the shift to digital literary forms such as e-books, digital archives, and electronic literature. While Digital Humanities (DH) has been hailed as the 'next big thing' in literary studies, many students and scholars remain perplexed as to what a DH approach to literature entails, and skeptical observers continue to see literature and the digital world as fundamentally incompatible. In its argument that digital and traditional scholarship should be placed in dialogue with each other, this book contextualizes the advent of the digital in literary theory, explores the new questions readers can ask of texts when they become digitized, and investigates the challenges that fresh forms of born-digital fiction pose to existing models of literary analysis. 01.0_pp_i_iv_Frontmatter 02.0_pp_v_vi_Dedication 03.0_pp_vii_viii_Contents 04.0_pp_ix_xii_List_of_Tables_and_Figures 05.0_pp_xiii_xviii_Preface_The_Excess_of_Seeing 06.0_pp_xix_xx_Acknowledgments 07.0_pp_1_2_Is_Literature_Dying_in_the_Digital_Age 07.1_pp_3_21_The_Digital_Medium_and_Its_Message 07.2_pp_22_38_Medium_Shifts_Literary_Thought_in_Media_History 08.0_pp_39_40_Digitization 08.1_pp_41_56_The_Universal_Library 08.2_pp_57_81_Digital_Editions_and_the_Complexity_of_Remediation 08.3_pp_82_130_Quantitative_Approaches_to_the_Literary 09.0_pp_131_132_Born_Digital 09.1_pp_133_153_Short-Circuiting_the_Publication_Process 09.2_pp_154_174_Interactivity_Revolution_and_Evolution_in_Narrative 09.3_pp_175_197_Literature_in_the_Digital_Master_Medium 09.4_pp_198_206_Print_in_the_Digital_Age 10.0_pp_207_226_Notes 11.0_pp_227_233_Index