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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790925203321

Autore

Emerson Lori

Titolo

Reading writing interfaces : from the digital to the bookbound / / Lori Emerson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4529-4218-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Electronic Mediations ; ; 44

Disciplina

802/.85

Soggetti

Hypertext literature - History and criticism

Literature and technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Opening Closings; 1. Indistinguishable from Magic: Invisible Interfaces and Digital Literature as Demystifier; 2. From the Philosophy of the Open to the Ideology of the User-Friendly; 3. Typewriter Concrete Poetry as Activist Media Poetics; 4. The Fascicle as Process and Product; Postscript: The Googlization of Literature; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Lori Emerson examines how interfaces-from today's multitouch devices to yesterday's desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson's self-bound fascicle volumes-mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present into the past, she shows how writers have long tested and transgressed technological boundaries.  Reading the means of production as well as the creative works they produce, Emerson demonstrates that technologies are more than mere tools and that the interface is not a neutral border betwe