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A Short Media History of English Literature / Ingo Berensmeyer.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (IX, 304 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110784459
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 002.0941 23/eng/20220805
LOC classification:
  • Z8.G7
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- I The Age of Performance (since c. 70,000 BCE) -- 2 Voice and Hand -- 3 The Medieval and Early Modern Book -- 4 Theatre and Drama: Liveness on the Stage -- II The Age of Representation (since c. 1500 CE) -- 5 Print Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 6 Paper Worlds: The Novel as Object and Form -- 7 Voice and Breath in Romantic and Victorian Poetry -- III The Age of Connection (since c. 1850 CE) -- 8 Touch: Literature as Telecommunication -- 9 Sound: Phonography, Telephony, Radio, Noise -- 10 Vision: Text and Image -- 11 Screen: Literature and the Moving Image -- 12 Web: Literature in the Digital Age -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- List of Illustrations and Table -- References -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- I The Age of Performance (since c. 70,000 BCE) -- 2 Voice and Hand -- 3 The Medieval and Early Modern Book -- 4 Theatre and Drama: Liveness on the Stage -- II The Age of Representation (since c. 1500 CE) -- 5 Print Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 6 Paper Worlds: The Novel as Object and Form -- 7 Voice and Breath in Romantic and Victorian Poetry -- III The Age of Connection (since c. 1850 CE) -- 8 Touch: Literature as Telecommunication -- 9 Sound: Phonography, Telephony, Radio, Noise -- 10 Vision: Text and Image -- 11 Screen: Literature and the Moving Image -- 12 Web: Literature in the Digital Age -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- List of Illustrations and Table -- References -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

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