Description
Book SynopsisPrimarily arguing for seeing print as a medium along with the scroll, electronic literature, and computer games, this volume examines the potential transformations if academic departments embraced a media framework. The editors bring together an impressive range of leading scholars to offer new insights for better understanding the implications of the choices we, and our institutions, are making.
Trade Review"The clear theoretical, methodological, didactic, and institutional program of this book and the electrifying qualities of the essays that illustrate it make Comparative Textual Media not only a landmark publication, but a sign of hope for textual studies in general."—Image (&) Narrative
"Comparative Textual Media mounts a successful argument for rethinking the way textual production is considered, and for situating printed matter among other media as an object of study itself."—Information & Culture
"Comparative Textual Media is carefully arranged into three parts each containing four essays, which interact so beautifully with one another that readers will most benefit from reading each individual section in its entirety."—Journal of Modern Literature
"An intense body of work."—Neural
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction. Making, Critique: A Media FrameworkN. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman
Part I. Theories1. TXTual PracticeRita Raley2. Mobile Narratives: Reading and Writing Urban Space with Location-Based TechnologiesAdriana de Souza e Silva3. The .txtual ConditionMatthew G. Kirschenbaum4. From A to ScreenJohanna Drucker
Part II. Practices5. Bookrolls as MediaWilliam A. Johnson6. Dwarven Epitaphs: Procedural Histories in Dwarf FortressStephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux7. Reading Childishly?: A Codicology of the Modern SelfPatricia Crain8. Print Culture (Other than Codex): Job Printing and Its ImportanceLisa Gitelman
Part III. Recursions9. Medieval RemediationsJessica Brantley10. Gilded Monuments: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Donne’s Letters, and the Mediated TextThomas Fulton11. Reading Screens: Comparative Perspectives on Computational PoeticsJohn David Zuern12. Reading exquisite_code: Critical Code Studies of LiteratureMark C. Marino
ContributorsIndex
