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04264aam a2200481 i 4500 001 DF8C4B0AECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160318010059 008 150330s2015 iaua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2015005560 020 $a 1609383591 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9781609383596 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)905969932 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d GZM $d CDX $d ZCU $d COO $d NZLPP $d GUA $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS231.B66 $b S73 2015 082 00 $a 810.9/357 $2 23 100 1 $a Starre, Alexander, $e author. 245 10 $a Metamedia : $b American book fictions and literary print culture after digitization / $c Alexander Starre. 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xii, 310 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Impressions : studies in the art, culture, and future of books 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-293) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: From text to book -- Reading metamedia -- A bookish institution: the McSweeney's universe -- Mark Z. Danielewski's complex codices -- Convergences of a different order: immersive book fictions and literary bibliographers -- Beyond trauma: the ethics of materialized memory in Jonathan Safran Foer -- Conclusion: Print culture and the dialectic of digitization. 520 $a Does literature need the book? With electronic texts and reading devices growing increasingly popular, the codex is no longer the default format of fiction. Yet as Alexander Starre shows in Metamedia , American literature has rediscovered the book as anartistic medium after the first ebook hype in the late 1990s. By fusing narrative and design, a number of "bibliographic" writers have created reflexive fictions metamedia that invite us to read printed formats in new ways. Their work challenges ingrainedtheories and beliefs about literary communication and its connections to technology and materiality. Metamedia explores the book as a medium that matters and introduces innovative critical concepts to better grasp its narrative significance. Combining sustained textual analysis with impulses from the fields of book history, media studies, and systems theory, Starre explains the aesthetics and the cultural work of complex material fictions, such as Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves (2000), Chip Kidd's The Cheese Monkeys (2001), Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper (2005), Reif Larsen's The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet (2009), and Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes (2010). He also broadens his analysis beyond the genre of the novel in an extensive account of the influential literary magazine McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and its founder, Dave Eggers. For this millennial generation of writers and publishers, the computer was never a threat to print culture, but a powerful tool to make better books. In careful close readings, Starre puts typefaces, layouts, and cover designs on the map of literary criticism. At the same time, the book steers clear of bibliophile nostalgia and technological euphoria as it follows writers, designers, and publishers in the process of shaping the surprising history of literary bookmaking after digitization. 650 0 $a American literature $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Books and reading $z United States. 650 0 $a Digital media $z United States. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 21st century. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Books and reading. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00836454 650 7 $a Digital media. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00893716 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 2000 - 2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Impressions (Series) (University of Iowa Press) 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190305055403.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180118052414.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DF8C4B0AECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search