Media Ecologies of Literature

Half Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nFigures\nContributors\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction: The media ecologies of literature\n	Introduction\n	Literature – media – theory\n	Media ecology\nPart I: Reading | Media | Theory\n	Chapter 1: From work to text revisited: ‘Reading’ and the trajectory from literature to media theory\n		Introduction: Reading a text\n		The work(s) of modern literature\n		Text(s) and media theory\n		From work to text to practice\n		Postscript: Reading a Text\n	Chapter 2: Media theory as book theory: From the technologies of writing to the materialities of reading\n		Introduction\n		Literary medialities within and beyond Kittlerian media theory\n		The forensic and the aesthetic in the book of S.\n	Chapter 3: The poetics of etcetera: A materialist-semiotic reading of George Orwell’s literary lists\n		Becoming mollusc: The resolute incompleteness of the list\n		Disquieting epiphanies: How to fall in love with a heteroclite list\n		Modernist mirabilia: List poetics or, the map is the territory\n	Chapter 4: Invisible thresholds: Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station\n		Introduction\n		Poetry and prestige\n		Invisible thresholds\n		Experiencing the deadest of all media\n		Conclusion\nPart II: Material | Designs | Techniques\n	Chapter 5: The cyclography of literature\n		Introduction\n		The cyclography of things – a typology\n			The biography of the object\n			Experimental biography\n			Novels of circulation\n			‘Merry tale’ and sermon\n		Cycles of literature\n			Piece of paper: Natural cycles, reproduction cycles of transformations\n			A book: Cycles of production/distribution/mediation\n			Processing: Media cycles\n			The wig: Self-parodistic metamorphosis\n			Fashion cycles\n			Tracking cyclography\n		Cycles of literary history\n	Chapter 6: Flipping, flicking, turning: Cultural practices of reading in B. S. Johnson, Alan Ayckbourn and Mark Z. Danielewski\n		Introduction\n		B. S. Johnson: The Unfortunates (1969)\n		Alan Ayckbourn: Intimate Exchanges (1982)\n		Mark Z. Danielewski: Only Revolutions (2006)\n		Conclusion\n	Chapter 7: Craftsmen versus dandies: Designing the scene of reading through aestheticism and Arts & Crafts\n		Theory: Craft and design\n		Context: Craftsmen and dandies\n		The scene of design: Huysmans|Wilde\n		The scene of craft: Chaucer|Morris\n		Media ecology of craft and design\nPart III: Digital | Spaces | Platforms\n	Chapter 8: Remediations of canonized literary texts in the digital space: From paratextuality to hypermedia\n		This ‘tangled web of medial ecology’\n		From book to book-app, from page to touchscreen\n		Typology of book apps: Paratextuality and hypermedia\n		Conclusion\n	Chapter 9: Reading listening interfaces: Reconfiguring reading in the age of digital platforms\n		Introduction\n		The semiotic format – the reader as an active principle of the text\n		Semiotic and material formats\n		Reading activity – deep and surface\n		Technology and media from a material perspective\n		Conclusion\n		Epilogue\n	Chapter 10: Reading player one: Interfaces between video games and literature\n		Introduction: Playing stories, reading games\n		Playful reading\n		The gamic novel\nPart IV: Coda\n	Chapter 11: Towards a media ecology of literature: The case of Romanticism\n		Introduction\n		Science and Charlotte Smith’s ‘Studies by the Sea’\n		Knowledge and literature\n		Media theory and literature\n		Transcending dualism: New approaches to media and mediation\n		Poetry – science – media\nIndex