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1. Control and freedom : power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics

   Control and freedom : power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 03.03.2012 - 19:58

2. Life on the Screen: Identity on the Internet

   Life on the Screen is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the screen to engage in new ways of thinking about evolution, relationships, politics, sex, and the self. Life on the Screen traces a set of boundary negotiations, telling the story of the changing impact of the computer on our psychological lives and our evolving ideas about minds, bodies, and machines.

   (Source: Google books)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 03.03.2012 - 20:01

3. Computerpoesie: Studien zur Modifikation poetischer Texte durch den Computer

   The conception and realisation of computerised poetry is based on a computer’s inherent qualities and characteristics. Resulting works are hybrid, multimedia and interactive texts comprising typeface, image and sound; they can neither be printed on paper nor viewed without a computer, or to be more precise, an electronic apparatus (holography, monitor, virtual reality). This study explores the historical origins of electronic poetry and, on the basis of the switch from paper to computer, analyses the significance these fundamental shifts have had on the aesthetic interaction of language and text: Typeface starts to move and in this way challenges the poetic production and our perception. (Source: http://www.saskia-reither.de/?p=374&lang=en)

   Jörgen Schäfer - 06.03.2012 - 13:44

4. Poetry Goes Intermedia: US-amerikanische Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts aus kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive

   Poetry Goes Intermedia: US-amerikanische Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts aus kultur- und medienwissenschaftlicher Perspektive

   Jörgen Schäfer - 06.03.2012 - 13:46

5. Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory

   Equally interested in what is and what could be, Cybertext Poetics combines ludology and cybertext theory to solve persistent problems and introduce paradigm changes in the fields of literary theory, narratology, game studies, and digital media. The book first integrates theories of print and digital literature within a more comprehensive theory capable of coming to terms with the ever-widening media varieties of literary expression, and then expands narratology far beyond its current confines resulting in multiple new possibilities for both interactive and non-interactive narratives. By focusing on a cultural mode of expression that is formally, cognitively, affectively, socially, aesthetically, ethically and rhetorically different from narratives and stories, Cybertext Poetics constructs a ludological basis for comparative game studies, shows the importance of game studies to the understanding of digital media, and argues for a plurality of transmedial ecologies.

   (Source: Continuum online catalog.)

   Jörgen Schäfer - 16.03.2012 - 14:52

6. Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media

   How the negotiation between poetic and media discourses takes place is the subject of Marjorie Perloff's groundbreaking study. Radical Artifice considers what happens when the "natural speech" model inherited from the great Modernist poets comes up against the "natural speech" of the Donahue "talk show," or again, how visual poetics and verse forms are responding to the languages of billboards and sound bytes. Among the many poets whose works are discussed are John Ashbery, George Oppen, Susan Howe, Clark Coolidge, Lyn Hejinian, Leslie Scalapino, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, and Steve McCaffery. But the strongest presence in Perloff's book is John Cage, a "poet" better known as a composer, a philosopher, a printmaker, and one who understood, almost half a century ago, that from now on no word, musical note, painted surface, or theoretical statement could ever again escape "contamination" from the media landscape in which we live. It is under his sign that Radical Artifice was composed.

   Source: University of Chicago Press, catalog entry

   Patricia Tomaszek - 17.03.2012 - 00:12

7. The Textual Condition

   Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend his investigations of the instability of the physical text. McGann shows how every text enters the world under socio-historical conditions that set the stage for a ceaseless process of textual development and mutation. Arguing that textuality is a matter of inscription and articulation, he explores texts as material and social phenomena, as particular kinds of acts. McGann links his study to contextual and institutional studies of literary works as they are generated over time by authors, editors, typographers, book designers, marketing planners, and other publishing agents. This enables him to examine issues of textual stability and instability in the arenas of textual production and reproduction. Drawing on literary examples from the past two centuries--including works by Byron, Blake, Morris, Yeats, Joyce, and especially Pound--McGann applies his theory to key problems facing anyone who studies texts and textuality.

   (Source: Book jacket)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.03.2012 - 14:53

8. A poetics

   This rich collection is far more than an important work of criticism by an extraordinary poet; it is a poetic intervention into criticism. "Artifice of Absorption," a key essay, is written in verse, and its structures and rhythms initiate the reader into the strength and complexity of the argument. In a wild variety of topics, polemic, and styles, Bernstein surveys the current poetry scene and addresses many of the hot issues of poststructuralist literary theory. "Poetics is the continuation of poetry by other means," he writes. What role should poetics play in contemporary culture? Bernstein finds the answer in dissent, not merely in argument but in form--a poetic language that resists being easily absorbed into the conventions of our culture.

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.03.2012 - 15:02

9. Reading the Illegible

   Reading the Illegible

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.03.2012 - 15:21

10. Modernisms: A Literary Guide

    The recent enthusiasm for things postmodern has often produced a caricature of Modernism as monolithic and reactionary. Peter Nicholls argues instead that the distinctive feature of Modernism is its diversity. Through a lively analysis of each of Modernism's main literary movements, he explores the connections between the new stylistic developments and the shifting politics of gender and authority.

    Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.03.2012 - 15:33

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