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

• Autore: Emerson Lori
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Disciplina: 802/.85
• Soggetto topico: Hypertext literature - History and criticism; Literature and technology
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading writing interfaces
• ISBN: 1-4529-4218-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813719303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Electronic mediations ; ; 44.