| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 295 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Page and screen
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Page and screen.
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| Summary |
"Through technological experiments, readers have seen the concept of the book change over the years, and the novel reflects these experiments, acting as a kind of archive for information. Out of Print reveals that the novel continues to shape popular understandings of information culture, even as it adapts to engage with new media and new practices of mediating information in the digital age. This innovative study chronicles how the print book has fared as both novelists and the burgeoning profession of information science have grappled with unprecedented quantities of data across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As the novel's archival project took a critical turn from realism to an investigation of the structures, possibilities, and ideologies of information media, novelists have considered ideas about how data can best be collected and stored. Julia Panko pairs case studies from information history with close readings of modernist works such as James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's Orlando and contemporary novels from Jonathan Safran Foer, Stephen King, and Mark Z. Danielewski that emphasize their own informational qualities and experiment with the aesthetic potential of the print book"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Information shock : systematic management and the modernist novel -- Form in the cloud : computational mediation and the contemporary novel -- Haptic storage : disembodied information, textual materiality, and the representation of the subject -- Bodies of information : digital immortality and the corporeality of books -- Shelf life : media transition, the death of the novel, and the futures of the book. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Books -- History -- 20th century.
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Books. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Books -- History -- 21st century.
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| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Books -- Format -- History.
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Books -- Format. |
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
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Fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Experimental fiction -- History and criticism.
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Experimental fiction. |
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Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Digital media -- History.
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Digital media. |
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Literature and technology.
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Literature and technology. |
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Books and reading -- Technological innovations.
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Books and reading. |
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Technological innovations. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781625345592 1625345593 9781625345608 1625345607 (DLC) 2020019512 (OCoLC)1154528742 |
| ISBN |
9781613768051 (electronic book) |
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1613768052 (electronic book) |
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9781625345592 (hardcover) |
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1625345593 (hardcover) |
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9781625345608 |
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1625345607 |
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