Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound Volume 44 Contributor(s): Emerson, Lori (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816691266 ISBN-13: 9780816691265 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 2014 Click for more in this series: Electronic Mediations |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry - Social Science | Media Studies - Literary Criticism |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2013038695 |
Series: Electronic Mediations |
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.61" W x 8.44" L (0.65 lbs) 232 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Oceania - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Choice 02/01/2015 pg. 968 |
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Publisher Description:
Reading the means of production as well as the creative works they produce, Emerson demonstrates that technologies are more than mere tools and that the interface is not a neutral border between writer and machine but is in fact a collaborative creative space. Reading Writing Interfaces begins with digital literature's defiance of the alleged invisibility of ubiquitous computing and multitouch in the early twenty-first century and then looks back at the ideology of the user-friendly graphical user interface that emerged along with the Apple Macintosh computer of the 1980s. She considers poetic experiments with and against the strictures of the typewriter in the 1960s and 1970s and takes a fresh look at Emily Dickinson's self-printing projects as a challenge to the coherence of the book. Through archival research, Emerson offers examples of how literary engagements with screen-based and print-based technologies have transformed reading and writing. She reveals the ways in which writers--from Emily Dickinson to Jason Nelson and Judd Morrissey--work with and against media interfaces to undermine the assumed transparency of conventional literary practice. |
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