Literature in the Digital Age: An Introduction

by Adam Hammond

Overview

Literature in a Digital Age: An Introduction guides readers through the most salient theoretical, interpretive, and creative possibilities opened up by the shift to digital literary forms such as e-books, digital archives, and electronic literature. While Digital Humanities (DH) has been hailed as the 'next big thing' in literary studies, many students and scholars remain perplexed as to what a DH approach to literature entails, and skeptical observers continue to see literature and the digital world as fundamentally incompatible. In its argument that digital and traditional scholarship should be placed in dialogue with each other, this book contextualizes the advent of the digital in literary theory, explores the new questions readers can ask of texts when they become digitized, and investigates the challenges that fresh forms of born-digital fiction pose to existing models of literary analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781107041905
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/09/2016
Series:	Cambridge Introductions to Literature Series
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.37(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Adam Hammond is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and British Literature at San Diego State University. He is coauthor of Modernism: Keywords, and his articles have appeared in such journals as The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, and the Literary Review of Canada.

Table of Contents

1. Is literature dying in the digital age?; 2. Digitization; 3. Born digital; Coda: print in the digital age.