A Short Media History of English Literature by Ingo Berensmeyer Paperback Book

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This book explores the history of literature as a history of changing media and modes of communication from prehistory to the present. It argues that literature has evolved, and continues to evolve, in sync with material forms and formats that engag

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This book explores the history of literature as a history of changing media and modes of communication, from manuscript to print, from the codex to the computer, and from paper to digital platforms. It argues that literature has evolved, and continues to evolve, in sync with material forms and formats that engage our senses in multiple ways. Because literary experiences are embedded in, and enabled by, media, the book focuses on literature as a changing combination of material and immaterial features. The principal agents of this history are no longer genres, authors, and texts but configurations of media and technologies. In telling the story of these combinations from prehistory to the present, Ingo Berensmeyer distinguishes between three successive dominants of media usage that have shaped literary history: performance, representation, and connection. Using English literature as a test case for a long view of media history, this book combines an unusual bird's eye view across periods with illuminating readings of key texts. It will prove an invaluable resource for teaching and for independent study in English or comparative literature and media studies.

Author Biography

Ingo Berensmeyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.

Review

"This study, however, is quite unparalleled as a comprehensive, concise and also eminently readable account of English literature with a consistent focus on mediality and materiality. I have been considering whether toadopt this book for my introduction to literary history. The welcome fact that its digitalemanation is available in open-access is inviting and its many qualities merit the plan- but I fear that it may be too complex for the relatively clean literary slate of anundergraduate class. This complexity is a direct result of Berensmeyer's focus onmateriality and form - and it is an increasingly important point to make in an age thattoo frequently seems to reduce literature to a set of ideological positions." Eckart Voigts in: Anglistik 1/2024

Details ISBN3111534596 Author Ingo Berensmeyer Pages 304 Publisher De Gruyter Year 2024 ISBN-13 9783111534596 Format Paperback Imprint De Gruyter Place of Publication Berlin Country of Publication Germany Publication Date 2024-06-17 Alternative 9783110784459 Illustrations 1 Tables, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white; 13 Illustrations, color Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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