Descrição
For the past few hundred years, Western cultures have relied on print. When writing was accomplished by a quill pen, inkpot, and paper, it was easy to imagine that writing was nothing more than a means by which writers could transfer their thoughts to readers.
The proliferation of technical media in the latter half of the twentieth century has revealed that the relationship between writer and reader is not so simple. From telegraphs complexities of communications technology have made mediality a central concern of the twenty-first century.
CONTENT
Introduction. Making, critique: A media framework
Part 1 – Theories
1 – TXTual practice
Rita Raley
2 – Mobile narratives: Reading and writing urban space with location-based technologies
Adriana de Souza e Silva
3 – The.txtual condition
Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
4 – From a to screen
Johanna Drucker
Part 2 – Practices
5 – Bookrolls as media
William A. Johnson
6 – Dwarven egitaphs: Procedural histories in Dwarf Fortress
Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux
7 – Reading Childishly? A codicology of the modern self
Patricia Crain
8 – Print culture (Other than Codex): Job Printing and its importance
Lisa Gitelman
Part 3 – Recursions
9 – Medieval remediation
Jessica Brantley
10 – Gilded Monuments: Shakespeare,s Sonnets, Donne,s letters, and the mediated text
Thomas Fulton
11 – Reading Screens: Comparative perspective on computational poetics
John David Zuern
12 – Reading exquisite_code: critical code studies of literature
Mark C. Marino
Contributors
Index
