Book, Text, Medium (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108834599)

Book, Text, Medium: Cross Sectional Reading for a Digital Age utilizes codex history, close reading, and language philosophy to assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today's e-books. It examines what happens to the reading experience in the twenty-first century when the original concept of a book is still held in the mind of a reader, if no longer in the reader's hand. Leading critic Garrett Stewart explores the play of mediation more generally, as the concept of book moves from a manufactured object to simply the language it puts into circulation. Framed by digital poetics, phonorobotics, and the rising popularity of audiobooks, this study sheds new light on both the history of reading and the negation of legible print in conceptual book art.

Author: Garrett Stewart
ISBN-10: 1108834590
ISBN-13: 9781108834599
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2021
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2022