Between Page and Screen
Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace
Published on 10. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-8232-3906-1 (ISBN)
Description
Since the earlier twentieth century, literary genres have traveled across magnetic, wireless, and electronic planes. Literature may now be anything from acoustic poetry and oral performance to verbal-visual constellations in print and on screen, cinematic narratives, or electronic textualities that range from hypertext to Flash.
New technologies have left their imprint on literature as a paper-based medium, and vice versa. This volume explores the interactions between literature and screenbased media over the past three decades. How has literature turned to screen, how have screens undone the tyranny of the page as a medium of literature, and how have screens affected the page in literary writing? This volume answers these questions by uniquely integrating perspectives from digital literary studies, on the one hand, and film and literature studies, on the other.
"Page" and "screen" are familiar catchwords in both digital literary studies and film and literature studies. The contributors reassess literary practice at the edges of paper, electronic media, and film. They show how the emergence of a new medium in fact reinvigorates the book and the page as literary media, rather than signaling their impending death.
While previous studies in this field have been restricted to the digitization of literature alone, this volume shows the continuing relevance of film as a cultural medium for contemporary literature. Its integrative approach allows readers to situate current shifts within the literary field in a wider, long-term perspective.
New technologies have left their imprint on literature as a paper-based medium, and vice versa. This volume explores the interactions between literature and screenbased media over the past three decades. How has literature turned to screen, how have screens undone the tyranny of the page as a medium of literature, and how have screens affected the page in literary writing? This volume answers these questions by uniquely integrating perspectives from digital literary studies, on the one hand, and film and literature studies, on the other.
"Page" and "screen" are familiar catchwords in both digital literary studies and film and literature studies. The contributors reassess literary practice at the edges of paper, electronic media, and film. They show how the emergence of a new medium in fact reinvigorates the book and the page as literary media, rather than signaling their impending death.
While previous studies in this field have been restricted to the digitization of literature alone, this volume shows the continuing relevance of film as a cultural medium for contemporary literature. Its integrative approach allows readers to situate current shifts within the literary field in a wider, long-term perspective.
Reviews / Votes
"A strong collection that is carefully organized around a clearly defined set of themes and interests. The volume poses questions of the always dynamic, transitional and 'feedback-looped' relationship between, on the one hand, paper and print-based forms, histories and archives; and, on the other, electronic media and textualities." -- -Simon Morgan Wortham University of Portsmouth "A state of the art book. Understanding the effects of the rapid changes from a print culture to a digital culture is of major importance these days." -- -J. Hillis Miller University of California, IrvineMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8232-3906-1 (9780823239061)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Kiene Brillenburg Wurth is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Media at Utrecht University and project leader of the VIDI project "Back to the Book" (2011-16), funded by the Dutch Research Council. She is the author of Musically Sublime: Infinity, Indeterminacy, Irresolvability and the editor of Between Page and Screen: Remaking Literature through Cinema and Cyberspace (both with Fordham University Press). She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and volumes and is currently preparing a new monograph.
Content
Part 1 Mediality, Digitality, Subjectivity Chapter 1 Samuel Weber "Medium, Reflexivity, and the Economy of the Self" Chapter 2 Anthony Curtis Adler "Analog in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Audiophilia, Semi-Aura, and the Cultural Memory of the Phonograph" Chapter 3 Joanna Zylinksa "What if Foucault Had Had a Blog?" Chapter 4 Kiene Brillenburg Wurth "Posthuman Selves, Assembled Textualities: Remediated Print in the Digital Age" Part 2 Digital Refexivities: Prose, Poetry, Code Chapter 5 Katherine Hayles "Intermediation: the Pursuit of a Vision" Chapter 6 Marie-Laure Ryan "Net.art: Dysfunctionality and Self-Reflexivity" Chapter 7 Katalin Sandor "Moving (the) Text: From Print to the Visual" Chapter 8 Federica Frabetti "Technology Made Legible" Part 3 Intermedial Reflexivities: Film, Writing, Script Chapter 9 Peter Verstraeten "Cinema as a Digest of Literature: A 'Remedy' Against Adaptation Fever" Chapter 10 Lovorka Gruic, Kiene Brillenburg Wurth "Cinematography as a Literary Concept in the (Post)Modern Age: Pirandello to Pynchon" Chapter 11 Jan Baetens "Novelizing Tati" Chapter 12 Martijn Engelberts "Copycat-and -Mouse: the Printed Screenplay and the Literary Field in France" Part 4 New Literacies, Education, and Accessibility Chapter 13 William Uricchio "The New Literacies. Technology and Cultural Form" Chapter 14 Asuncion Lopez Varela "Posthuman Inscriptions & Humachine Environments: Visibility, Blogging and the Construction of Subjectivity in Educational Spaces" Chapter 15 Gary Hall "The Singularity of New Media"