TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Book, text, medium : cross-sectional reading for a digital age T2 - Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture A1 - Stewart, Garrett, kirjoittaja LA - eng PP - Cambridge, UK ; New York PB - Cambridge University Press YR - 2020 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5493511 AB - "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 21st 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"-- SN - 978-1-108-83459-9 sidottu KW - Books and reading : Philosophy. KW - Books and reading : History : 21st century. ER -