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Ecologies of Writing
Natural, Technical, and Social Conditions of Textual Production in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
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Ecologies of Writing
Natural, Technical, and Social Conditions of Textual Production in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
About this book
Drawing from case studies in 20th century German literature and theory, the contributors to this volume explore the multiple dimensions behind and alongside authorship that constitutes the "ecology" of writing.
Over the last few decades, a resurgence of interest in historical and contemporary writing processes, fueled in part by the development of digital media, has developed alongside the emergence of new conceptions of material-human agency and the environment. What would it mean to apply these conceptions to the phenomenon of writing? As the essays in this volume explore, writing is never the purely mental activity of a solitary mind; it is inherently socially embedded and always more-than-human.
Examining the early 20th century to the present, a period of dramatic media-technological transition in which writers become increasingly self-reflexive and responsive to the materials and changing environmental circumstances of their craft, Ecologies of Writing expands the frame to encompass the vast array of material, social, environmental, and economic influences that all inform the practice of writing. Case studies draw on German-language literature and theory, including works by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, and W. G. Sebald, and recent theories of human-material agency, media theory, and ecocriticism.
Over the last few decades, a resurgence of interest in historical and contemporary writing processes, fueled in part by the development of digital media, has developed alongside the emergence of new conceptions of material-human agency and the environment. What would it mean to apply these conceptions to the phenomenon of writing? As the essays in this volume explore, writing is never the purely mental activity of a solitary mind; it is inherently socially embedded and always more-than-human.
Examining the early 20th century to the present, a period of dramatic media-technological transition in which writers become increasingly self-reflexive and responsive to the materials and changing environmental circumstances of their craft, Ecologies of Writing expands the frame to encompass the vast array of material, social, environmental, and economic influences that all inform the practice of writing. Case studies draw on German-language literature and theory, including works by Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, and W. G. Sebald, and recent theories of human-material agency, media theory, and ecocriticism.
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Yes, you can access Ecologies of Writing by Urs Büttner,Jacob Haubenreich, Imke Meyer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & German Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction Ecologies of Writing: An Expanded Perspective on Textual Creation1
- Part One Materialities
- I The Field of Writing: The Ambulatory Art of Noticing Third Nature in Sebald and Kinsky
- II Street Writing and Contemporary German Streetscapes
- Part Two Mediality and Technical Devices
- III Lines of Force: Writing Theory and the Energetic Scripts of Modernism1
- IV An Updated Superscript: Paradoxes of Writing Amidst Generative AI
- Part Three Mind and Body
- V “This Conflict between the Soul’s Inclination and the Body’s Capabilities”: Writing Hygiene in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice
- VI Immersion and Its Discontents: Kafka’s Ecology of Attention
- Part Four Social Conditions
- VII In the Machine Room: Writing between Author and Editor, 1900–2000
- VIII Writing as Work: Toward a Theory of Literary Production
- Contributors
- Index
- Volumes in the series: