| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages). |
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text file |
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Media / Art / Politics Ser.
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Media / Art / Politics Ser.
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| Summary |
Big Books in Times of Big Data examines recent trends of size and scale in the novel in terms of the shift from the bound book to the newer materialities of the digital. Using a wide-ranging international archive of hefty tomes by authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bolaño, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgård, George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, and William T. Vollmann, Van de Ven reflects on the place of big book-bound literature in a media genealogy which includes film and television but also online databases, social media, selfies, and Global Information Systems. This study ma. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Big data.
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Big data. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General. |
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e-books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Van de Ven, Inge. Big Books in Times of Big Data. Leiden : Leiden University Press, ©2020 9789087283377 |
| ISBN |
9400603606 |
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9789400603615 (e-PUB) |
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9400603614 (e-PUB) |
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9789400603608 (electronic book) |
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9789087283377 |
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9087283377 |
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