Overview

To date, most criticism of print and digital technotexts—literary objects that foreground the role of their media of inscription—has emphasized the avant-garde contexts of a text’s production. The Baroque Technotexts opens new perspectives on this important and innovative literary canon, analyzing the role of baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics in the emergence and possible futures of technotexts. Combining the insights of poststructuralist theory of the baroque, postcolonial theory of the neobaroque, and insightful critique of the prevailing modernist approaches to technotexts, The Baroque Technotexts reframes critical debate of contemporary experiments in literary practice in the late age of print. Analyses of works from authors including Jonathan Safran Foer, Chris Ware, and David Clark are matched with reflections on other media texts—film, visual art, and interface design—that have adopted baroque aesthetic tropes.

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Author:   Elise Takehana (Fitchburg State University)
Publisher:   Intellect Books
Imprint:   Intellect Books
ISBN:  

9781789381658

ISBN 10:   1789381657
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   26 March 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: An Anamorphic Projection of the Title Reconciling Literary Study with Materiality Technotexts as a Focus Technotexts Beyond Modernism Baroque as the Other Focus Baroque Reason as Modernity's Madness Prologue Choice Monads: A Harmonic Subjectivity for Technotextuality Mirrors Mise en Abyme: Mirrorish Dimensions Down to the Code Illusion Trompe L'Oeil: Blending Media and Synesthetic Knowing Surface Minoring: Baroque Cosmology and Criticizing from Within Code Collections and Navels: The Horror Vacui of the Database Coda References Index

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Elise Takehana is associate professor of English studies at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. Her research interests include composition and rhetoric, media studies, aesthetics and twentieth- and twenty-first-century text production.

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