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OverviewThis book explores the media ecologies of literature – the ways in which a literary text is interwoven in its material, technical, performative, praxeological, affective, and discursive network and which determine how it is experienced and interpreted. Through novel approaches to the complex, contingent and interdependent environments of literature, this volume demonstrates how questions about the mediality of literature – particularly in the wake of digitization – shed a new light on our understanding of textuality, reading, platforms and reception processes. By drawing on recent developments in advanced media theory, Media Ecologies of Literature emphasizes the productivity of innovative re-conceptualizations of literature as a medium in its own right. In an intentionally wide historical scope, the essays engage with literary texts from the Romantic to the contemporary period, from Charlotte Smith and Oscar Wilde to A. L. Kennedy and Mark Z. Danielewski, from the traditionally printed novel to audiobooks and reading apps. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dr. Susanne Bayerlipp (Assistant Professor, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany) , Dr. Ralf Haekel (Professor and Chair of English Literature, Universität Leipzig, Germany) , Dr. Johannes Schlegel (English Literature and Cultural Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA Edition: POD FIRST ISBN: 9781501383878ISBN 10: 1501383876 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 01 December 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction Part I Reading|Media|Theory 2. From Work to Text Revisited: ‘Reading’ and the Trajectory from Literature to Media Theory (Christoph Reinfandt, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany) 3. Media Theory as Book Theory: From the Technologies of Writing to the Materialities of Reading (Alexander Starre, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 4. The Poetics of Et cetera: A Materialist-Semiotic Reading of George Orwell’s Literary Lists (Ralph Pordzik, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany) 5. Invisible Thresholds: Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station (Rieke Jordan, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany) Part II Material|Designs|Techniques 6. The Cyclography of Literature (Mirna Zeman, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany) 7. On Leaves: Flipping, Flicking, Turning (Sabine Zubarik, Evangelische Akademie Thüringen, Germany) 8. Designing the Scene of Reading through Aestheticism and Arts and Crafts (Balázs Keresztes, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) Part III Digital|Spaces|Platforms 9. Remediations of Canonized Literary Texts in the Digital Space: From Paratextuality to Hypermedia (Zita Farkas, Örebro University, Sweden) 10. Reading Listening Interfaces: Reconfiguring Reading in the Age of Digital Platforms (Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen, Aarhus University, Denmark) 11. Reading Player One: Interfaces Between Video Games and Literature (Sebastian Domsch, Universität Greifswald, Germany) Part IV Coda 12. Towards a Media Ecology of Literature: The Case of Romanticism (Ralf Haekel, Universität Leipzig, Germany)ReviewsThis is an impressive, highly nuanced and above all very helpful collection at the cutting edge of a slightly disoriented discipline in need of guidance. It addresses three related questions that are normally kept at a distance: How are scholars of literature to react to the changing media infrastructure in which texts are produced and circulated, which of the many media theories at our disposal are best suited for the task, and to what extent are these issues already at play in the texts themselves? Media Ecologies of Literature does what good collections are supposed to do--it provides surveys and samples, informed overviews, and revealing case studies. And it comes with an optimistic undertone: 'media' are not a threat to literature, they are a foundation and an opportunity. * Geoffrey Winthrop-Young, Professor of German and Nordic Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada * As one of its key departure points, Media Ecologies of Literature powerfully rejects recent critical and theoretical portrayals of Kittlerian media theory as putatively 'technodeterminist.' In doing so, this transformative edited collection squarely places media materialities and affordances back into conversations with textual, semiotic, and sociocultural concerns that, as this volume's authors persuasively reveal, have always already been productively conjoined as complex media ecologies. This book will be an important resource for media studies scholars and critics seeking to explore the inherent knottiness-natural and cultural, semiotic and material, subjective and objective-of myriad cultural mediations issuing from Friedrich Kittler's 'Discourse Network 1800' to our present. * Andrew Burkett, Associate Professor of English, Union College, USA, and author of Romantic Mediations: Media Theory and British Romanticism (2016) * Author InformationSusanne Bayerlipp teaches English Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her research focuses on the relation between material culture, literature, and affect theory. She is currently working on a book project on compulsive hoarding in contemporary literature and culture. In 2018, she co-edited a special issue of the peer-reviewed ZAA on Cultural Techniques of Literature. Ralf Haekel is Professor and Chair of English Literature at Leipzig University, Germany. His main research interests lie in the fields of Romanticism and Media Studies. His publications include The Soul in British Romanticism (2014), the Handbook of British Romanticism (De Gruyter, 2017), and British and Irish Television Series in the 21st Century (2019). Johannes Schlegel teaches English Literature and Cultural Studies at JMU Würzburg, Germany. His PhD thesis on the anthropology and mediality of evil in British Romanticism was awarded the international Novalis Prize in 2016. In 2018, he co-edited a special issue of the peer-reviewed ZAA on Cultural Techniques of Literature. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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