Overview

Literature has experienced two great medium shifts, each with profound implications for its forms, genres, and cultures: that from orality to writing, and that from writing to printing. Today we are experiencing a third shift, from printed to digital forms. As with the previous shifts, this transformation is reconfiguring literature and literary culture. The Cambridge Companion to Literature in the Digital Age is organized around the question of what is at stake for literary studies in this latest transition. Rather than dividing its chapters by methodology or approach, this volume proceeds by exploring the major categories of literary investigation that are coming under pressure in the digital age: concepts such as the canon, periodization, authorship, and narrative. With chapters written by leading experts in all facets of literary studies, this book shows why all those who read, study, and teach literature today ought to attend to the digital.

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Author:   Adam Hammond (University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009349543

ISBN 10:   1009349546
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   14 November 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Introduction Adam Hammond; 1. Data and the Discipline Yohei Igarashi; 2. Literary Change Ted Underwood; 3. The Canon Mark Algee-Hewitt; 4. Sound and Performance Marit J. MacArthur and Lee M. Miller; 5. The Archive Katherine Bode; 6. Editions Anna Mukamal, Claire Battershill and Helen Southworth; 7. Materiality Dennis Yi Tenen; 8. The Literary Marketplace Tully Barnett; 9. Fanfiction, Digital Platforms, and Social Reading Anna Wilson; 10. Narrative and Interactivity Emily Short; 11. Generated Literature Nick Montfort and Judy Heflin; 12. Literary Gaming Timothy Welsh; 13. The Printed Book in the Digital Age Inge van de Ven; 14. Literature's Audioptic Platform Garrett Stewart; 15. Critique Gabriel Hankins.

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Adam Hammond is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Far Shore: Indie Games, Superbrothers, and the Making of Jett (2021), Literature in the Digital Age (2016), and co-author of Modernism: Keywords (2014). He is the editor of Cambridge Critical Concepts: Technology and Literature (2024). His work has appeared in Wired and The Globe and Mail and has been profiled by the BBC and CBC.

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