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Book SynopsisOn the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture offers a polyphonic account of mutual interpenetrations of literature and new media. Shifting its focus from the personal to the communal and back again, the volume addresses such individual experiences as immersion and emotional reading, offers insights into collective processes of commercialisation and consumption of new media products and explores the experience and mechanisms of interactivity, convergence culture and participatory culture. Crucially, the volume also shows convincingly that, though without doubt global, digital culture and new media have their varied, specifically local facets and manifestations shaped by national contingencies. The interplay of the common subtext and local colour is discussed by the contributors from Eastern Europe and the Western world. Contributors are: Justyna Fruzińska, Dirk de Geest, Maciej Jakubowiak, Michael Joyce, Kinga Kasperek, Barbara Kaszowska-Wandor, Aleksandra Małecka, Piotr Marecki, Łukasz Mirocha, Aleksandra Mochocka, Emilya Ohar, Mariusz Pisarski, Anna Ślósarz, Dawn Stobbart, Jean Webb, Indrė Žakevičienė, Agata Zarzycka.
Trade Review“The newly edited book On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture: Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe by Irene Barbara Kalla, Patrycja Poniatowska and Dorota Michuƚka presents eye-opening research and literary experiments that are largely foreign to literary studies in Southeast Asia.” - Florence Toh Haw Ching, Ikhlas Abdul Hadi, Australian International Academic Centre AU in International Journal of Education & Literacy Studies, 2018 pp. 187-188.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Barbara Kalla, Patrycja Poniatowska and Dorota Michułka Part 1: From the Centre to the Fringes and Back Again 1 Two Ends and One Beginning: Notes on the Future of Writing in the Post-Medial Context Mariusz Pisarski 2 Digital Literature, Deinosis and Haptic Reading Barbara Kaszowska-Wandor 3 Edgar Allan Poe’s Adventures in Convergence Culture Agata Zarzycka 4 The Book and the Tablet as Media of Children’s Literature: A Ukrainian Case Emilia Ohar 5 Literary Experiments with Automatic Translation: A Case Study of a Creative Experiment Involving King Ubu and Google Translate Aleksandra Małecka and Piotr Marecki 6 Helping Ourselves Out of the Margins: Handbooks for Creative Writing as a Tool for Analyzing Literary Dynamics Dirk de Geest Part 2: Games: Where Narratives (Do Not) Fear to Tread 7 The Witcher Adventure (Board) Game in The Witcher Transmedia Universe Aleksandra Mochocka 8 Playing the Future History of Humanity: Situating Fallout 3 as a Narratological Artefact Dawn Stobbart 9 Storytelling in the Age of Digital Media The Netwars – Out of Control Transmedia Project – A Case Study Łukasz Mirocha 10 The Pitfalls of Narration: Call of Juarez: Gunslinger Justyna Fruzińska Part 3: The Literary, the Digital and Their Social (Dis)Contents 11 Alice and Paddington: Digital Migrants from Book to Film Jean Webb 12 Futures of Copyright: Literature as a Medium of Legal Change Maciej Jakubowiak 13 Consumers of Popular Culture or Demanding Dictators? The Lithuanian Case Indrė Žakevičienė 14 Product Placement Novels as a Literary Margin Anna Ślósarz 15 Book Blogosphere on the Polish Internet Kinga Kasperek 16 “Children of Our Age”: Digital Media and the Lie of Literature Michael Joyce
