Ingo Berensmeyer's new book has appeared, open access on De Gruyter - it
will interest a number of us here, who are interested in the technologies of
the word. Sections cover the BBC's long courtship, and occasional coupling,
with technologies...
P.O'S.
Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022
A Short Media History of English Literature
Ingo Berensmeyer
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110784459
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110784459/html
Open Access
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.
Author information
Ingo Berensmeyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.
https://www.anglistik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/berensmeyer/index
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