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Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media
Contributor(s): Pressman, Jessica (Author)
ISBN: 0199937109     ISBN-13: 9780199937103
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $40.84  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | American - African American
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 802.85
LCCN: 2013020714
Series: Modernist Literature & Culture
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.70 lbs) 240 pages
 
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While most critical studies of born-digital literature celebrate it as a postmodern art form with roots in contemporary technologies and social interactions, Digital Modernism provides an alternative genealogy. Grounding her argument in literary history, media studies, and the practice of
close-reading, Jessica Pressman pairs modernist works by Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Bob Brown, with major digital works like William Poundstone's Project for the Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota, and Judd Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter to demonstrate how
the modernist movement of the 1920s and 1930s laid the groundwork for the innovations of electronic literature. Accordingly, Digital Modernism makes the case for considering these digital creations as literature and argues for the value of reading them carefully, closely, and within literary
history.