Digital Modernism

Jessica Pressman's Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media is an impressive accomplishment.

Autorentext
Jessica Pressman is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego.

Klappentext

Digital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism.

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Introduction ; Chapter 1 - Close Reading: Marshall McLuhan, From Modernism to Media Studies ; Chapter 2 - Reading Machines: Machine Poetry and Excavatory Reading in William Poundstone's Electronic Literature and Bob Brown's Readies ; Chapter 3 - Speed Reading: Super-Position and Simultaneity in Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota and Ezra Pound's Cantos ; Chapter 4 - Reading the Database: Narrative, Database, and Stream of Consciousness ; Chapter 5 - Reading Code: The Hallucination of Universal Language from Modernism to Cyberspace ; Coda - Rereading: Digital Modernism in Print, Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions