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Printed Past, Bookish Present, Digital Future: Media, Materiality, and Design in Contemporary Literature.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Printed Past, Bookish Present, Digital Future: Media, Materiality, and Design in Contemporary Literature./
作者:	Loy, Eric C.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	240 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-03A.
標題:	English literature. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28647363
ISBN:	9798535570426

Printed Past, Bookish Present, Digital Future: Media, Materiality, and Design in Contemporary Literature.
Loy, Eric C.

Printed Past, Bookish Present, Digital Future: Media, Materiality, and Design in Contemporary Literature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 240 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation argues for a recentering of the book medium in the study of contemporary literature. Recent works by popular authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves) and Jonathan Safran Foer (Tree of Codes) demonstrate an artistic resurgence of this material format, often positioned as an analog response to the proliferation of digital and multimedia content in current popular culture. Mixing interpretive strategies from media studies, book history, and literary criticism, this project traces new historical and theoretical contexts with which to understand this new era of the literary book. Building on Jessica Pressman's formulation of "bookishness," which she defines as "creative acts that engage the physicality of the book within a digital culture" (1), the four chapters in this dissertation each demonstrate how bookishness has shaped recent productions of contemporary literature, in a variety of artistic applications and in a number of different historical-cultural moments.Chapter One focuses on the mid-century development of an "editorial aesthetic" in literary fiction, in which authors borrow design and organizational strategies from academic books. In the examples I discuss-Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE-the editorial aesthetic is deployed in service of a subversive critique of hegemonic knowledge systems. Chapter Two explicates the "bookish interactivity" of a novel published as an unbound codex, typically labeled as a "book in a box." With critical readings of B.S. Johnson's The Unfortunates and Chris Ware's Building Stories, I demonstrate how literary book design can uniquely shape narrative structure as well cultivate new kinds of participatory reading modes. Chapter Three connects recent literary works to digital culture directly through the concept of "bookish remix." Reading Foer's Tree of Codes and Jordan Abel's Injun, I contextualize the creation and reception of these novels within internet meme culture and the creative copying of remix in a variety of media. Chapter Four addresses the fundamental process of "bookish feedback" that structures the evolution of the book medium and connects it to human development. My readings of Steve Tomasula's VAS: An Opera in Flatland and Matthew McIntosh's theMystery.doc illustrate how each novel exemplifies new advances in the book and the novel through bookish feedback in both material design and narrative structure.Fulfilling the promise of this dissertation's title, my study of all the literary works in this project ultimately reveals how such contemporary practices of literary bookishness connect to bibliographic history, interact with the media environment of the present, and reach to digital cultures of the future.

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