Book, Text, Medium
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Book, Text, Medium

Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Book, Text, Medium

Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age

About this book

Book, Text, Medium: Cross Sectional Reading for a Digital Age utilizes codex history, close reading, and language philosophy to assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today's e-books. It examines what happens to the reading experience in the twenty-first century when the original concept of a book is still held in the mind of a reader, if no longer in the reader's hand. Leading critic Garrett Stewart explores the play of mediation more generally, as the concept of book moves from a manufactured object to simply the language it puts into circulation. Framed by digital poetics, phonorobotics, and the rising popularity of audiobooks, this study sheds new light on both the history of reading and the negation of legible print in conceptual book art.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. Prospectus
  10. Intro\Retro
  11. Part I The Hold of the Codex
  12. Part II The Grip of Inscription
  13. Part III The Give of Medium
  14. Parting Words
  15. Notes
  16. Index