Book Presence in a Digital Age

Kiene Brillenburg Wurth is Professor of Literature and Comparative Media at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and project leader of the VIDI project “Back to the Book” funded by the Dutch Research Council. She is the author of Musically Sublime: Infinity, Indeterminacy, Irresolvability (2009) and the editor of Between Page and Screen: Remaking Literature Through Cinema and Cyberspace (2012). 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. She is the author of Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media (2014), co-author (with Mark C. Marino and Jeremy Douglass) of Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} (2015), and co-editor (with N. Katherine Hayles) of Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in a Postprint Era (2013).

List of Plates
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors

1. Book Presence: An Introductory Exploration
Kiene Brillenburg Wurth (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

I: Theory and Overview
2. Pagina Abscondita: Reading the the Book's Wake
John T. Hamilton (Harvard University, USA)
3. From Codex to Codecs
Garrett Stewart (University of Iowa, USA)
4. Bookwork and Bookishness: An Interview with Brian Dettmer and Doug Beube
Jessica Pressman (San Diego State University, USA)

Section II: Media Changes and Materiality
5. Infrathin Platforms: Print on Demand as Auto-Factography
Hannes Bajohr (Berlin’s Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany)
6. Genre and Materiality: Autobiography and Zines
Anna Poletti (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
7. Doing Things with Literature in the Digital Age: Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller and the Material Turn in Literary Studies
Liedeke Plate (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
8. ‘Book for Loan’: S as Paradox on Media Change
Emma De Vries and Yra van Dijk (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
9. Book Presence and Feline Absence: A Conversation with Mark Z. Danielewski
Kári Driscoll (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) and Inge van de Ven (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)

Section III: Conceptual Possibilities of the Book
10. Learn to Read Differently
Simon Morris (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
11. Emoji Dick and the Eponymous Whale
Lisa Gitelman (New York University, USA)
12. The Demediation of Alphabetic Writing in Memory Palace and Fugitive Sparrows
Kiene Brillenburg Wurth (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
13. Revisiting the Book-as-World: World-Making and Book Materiality in Only Revolutions and The Atlas
Inge van de Ven (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
14. Books as Archives: An Interview with Ernst van Alphen
Kiene Brillenburg Wurth (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

Index