Jessica Pressman

Digital Modernism (eBook, PDF)

Making It New in New Media

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

While most critical studies of born-digital literature celebrate it as a postmodern art form with roots in contemporary technologies and social interactions, Digital Modernism provides an alternative genealogy. Grounding her argument in literary history, media studies, and the practice of close-reading, Jessica Pressman pairs modernist works by Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Bob Brown, with major digital works like William Poundstone's Project for the Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota, and Judd Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter to demonstrate how the modernist movement of the 1920s and 1930s laid the groundwork for the innovations of electronic literature. Accordingly, Digital Modernism makes the case for considering these digital creations as "literature" and argues for the value of reading them carefully, closely, and within literary history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199937097
• Artikelnr.: 40340750

Autorenporträt

Jessica Pressman is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1 - Close Reading: Marshall McLuhan, From Modernism to Media
Studies
* Chapter 2 - Reading Machines: Machine Poetry and Excavatory Reading
in William Poundstone's Electronic Literature and Bob Brown's Readies
* Chapter 3 - Speed Reading: Super-Position and Simultaneity in
Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota and Ezra Pound's Cantos
* Chapter 4 - Reading the Database: Narrative, Database, and Stream of
Consciousness
* Chapter 5 - Reading Code: The Hallucination of Universal Language
from Modernism to Cyberspace
* Coda - Rereading: Digital Modernism in Print, Mark Z. Danielewski's
Only Revolutions