The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature

Awards:   Short-listed for The PROSE Award 2019 Short-listed for The PROSE Award 2019 (United States) Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019 Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019 (United States) Winner of The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature 2017 (United States)
Author:   Professor Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781474230254


Pages:   464
Publication Date:   30 November 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Awards

  • Short-listed for The PROSE Award 2019
  • Short-listed for The PROSE Award 2019 (United States)
  • Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019
  • Winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019 (United States)
  • Winner of The N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature 2017 (United States)

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Winner of the 2017 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The digital age has had a profound impact on literary culture, with new technologies opening up opportunities for new forms of literary art from hyperfiction to multi-media poetry and narrative-driven games. Bringing together leading scholars and artists from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is the first authoritative reference handbook to the field. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book explores the foundational theories of the field, contemporary artistic practices, debates and controversies surrounding such key concepts as canonicity, world systems, narrative and the digital humanities, and historical developments and new media contexts of contemporary electronic literature. Including guides to major publications in the field, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is an essential resource for scholars of contemporary culture in the digital era.

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Author:   Professor Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.934kg
ISBN:  

9781474230254


ISBN 10:   1474230253
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   30 November 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Tabbi (English, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago) has organized his foundational handbook in four parts that provide a needed framework for the work in this field. The first two sections- Ends, Beginnings, Poetics, Polemics -work their way through the key insights and concepts developed since the inception of the field. The other two sections- Materialities, Ontologies, Economies, Precarities -provide key essays on how electronic literature's formats have helped to define contemporary digital life. Including an annotated bibliography of major texts in this field, this is an invaluable resource for those interested in where literature is going. Summing Up: Essential. * CHOICE *


"Tabbi (English, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago) has organized his foundational handbook in four parts that provide a needed framework for the work in this field. The first two sections—""Ends, Beginnings,"" ""Poetics, Polemics""—work their way through the key insights and concepts developed since the inception of the field. The other two sections—""Materialities, Ontologies,"" ""Economies, Precarities""—provide key essays on how electronic literature’s formats have helped to define contemporary digital life. Including an annotated bibliography of major texts in this field, this is an invaluable resource for those interested in where literature is going. Summing Up: Essential. * CHOICE *"


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Joseph Tabbi is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is Editor of the Electronic Book Review, a former President of the Electronic Literature Organization and his previous publications include Postmodern Sublime (1995), Cognitive Fictions (2002) and Nobody Grew But the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis (2015).

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