90100 9 781501 321184 ISBN 978-1-5013-2118-4 LITERARY STUDIES Design by Daniel Benneworth-Gray Cover Image: Artwork by Brian Dettmer. New Funk Standards (DETAIL), 2017, hardcover book, acrylic varnish, 12-3/4” x 12” x 5-3/4”. Courtesy the artist and P•P•O•W, New York. “ book presence in a digital age is that rare volume that reads as both the culmination and anticipation of a ield. It relexively brings together some of the most compelling critics and artists thinking about ‘the book’ as medium and cultural artifact—and the individual conversations, explorations, and interventions that result would have alone made for a worthy volume. But the cumulative efect is much more than this, for collectively they articulate the questions that will inform scholarship and artistic practice for some years to come.” rita raley Associate Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA “Operating in the force ield between l iterary theory, comparative media studies, and new materialism, book presence in a digital age brims over with fresh, insightful, and nuanced explorations of the shifting contours of bookishness in the information age. By means of richly variegated points of entry, it demonstrates how print artifacts, far from hovering at the margins of the digital media ecology, have emerged as some of the deining laboratories for the elaboration of contemporary cultural forms.” jeffrey schnapp Faculty Director of metaLAB, Harvard University, USA Contrary to the apocalyptic pronouncements of paper media’s imminent demise in the digital age, there has been a veritable surge of creative reimaginings of books as bearers of the literary. From typographic experiments (Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves) to accordion books (Anne Carson’s Nox), from cut-ups (Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes) to collages (Graham Rawle’s Woman’s World ), from erasures (Mary Ruele’s A Little White Shadow) to mix-ups (Simon Morris’s The Interpretation of Dreams), print literature has gone through anything but a slow, inevitable death. Bringing together leading scholars, artists, and publishers, book presence in a digital age ofers a variety of perspectives on the past, present, and future of the book as medium and on the complex relationship of materiality to virtuality and of the analog to the digital. kiene brillenburg wurth is Professor of Literature and Comparative Media at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. kári driscoll is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. jessica pressman is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, USA. Also available from Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com Book Presence in a Digital Age Edited by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Kári Driscoll, and Jessica Pressman Book Presence in a Digital Age Edited by Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, Kári Driscoll, and Jessica Pressman Book Presence 6 x 9 ins_PLC_template.indd All Pages 15/02/2018 16:44