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A Short Media History of English Literature (Hardcover)
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A Short Media History of English Literature (Hardcover)
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This book explores the history of literature as a history of
changing media and modes of communication, from manuscript to
print, from the codex to the computer, and from paper to digital
platforms. It argues that literature has evolved, and continues to
evolve, in sync with material forms and formats that engage our
senses in multiple ways. Because literary experiences are embedded
in, and enabled by, media, the book focuses on literature as a
changing combination of material and immaterial features. The
principal agents of this history are no longer genres, authors, and
texts but configurations of media and technologies. In telling the
story of these combinations from prehistory to the present, Ingo
Berensmeyer distinguishes between three successive dominants of
media usage that have shaped literary history: performance,
representation, and connection. Using English literature as a test
case for a long view of media history, this book combines an
unusual bird's eye view across periods with illuminating readings
of key texts. It will prove an invaluable resource for teaching and
for independent study in English or comparative literature and
media studies.
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