Literature in the Digital Age

By - Adam Hammond

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Cambridge University Press, New York, 2016

ISBN 10 - 1107615070

ISBN 13 - 9781107615076

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Literature and the Internet

Shelf No - 2

common.call_no - 801 HAM

common.physical_description - xx, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes - Includes index

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Literature in a Digital Age: An Introduction guides readers through the most salient theoretical, interpretive, and creative possibilities opened up by the shift to digital literary forms such as e-books, digital archives, and electronic literature. While Digital Humanities (DH) has been hailed as the 'next big thing' in literary studies, many students and scholars remain perplexed as to what a DH approach to literature entails, and skeptical observers continue to see literature and the digital world as fundamentally incompatible. In its argument that digital and traditional scholarship should be placed in dialogue with each other, this book contextualizes the advent of the digital in literary theory, explores the new questions readers can ask of texts when they become digitized, and investigates the challenges that fresh forms of born-digital fiction pose to existing models of literary analysis.

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