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A Short Media History of English Literature

Ingo Berensmeyer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

IX, 304 Seiten

2022
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-078442-8 (ISBN)

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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.

lt;p>Ingo Berensmeyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.

"This study, however, is quite unparalleled as a comprehensive, concise and also eminently readable account of English literature with a consistent focus on mediality and materiality. I have been considering whether to
adopt this book for my introduction to literary history. The welcome fact that its digital
emanation is available in open-access is inviting and its many qualities merit the plan
- but I fear that it may be too complex for the relatively clean literary slate of an
undergraduate class. This complexity is a direct result of Berensmeyer's focus on
materiality and form - and it is an increasingly important point to make in an age that
too frequently seems to reduce literature to a set of ideological positions." Eckart Voigts in: Anglistik 1/2024

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2022
Zusatzinfo	5 b/w and 13 col. ill., 1 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 230 mm
Gewicht	588 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	History • Literature • media • Media, literature, history,
ISBN-10	3-11-078442-4 / 3110784424
ISBN-13	978-3-11-078442-8 / 9783110784428
Zustand	Neuware