Big Books in Times of Big Data

Van De Ven, Inge

ISBN 10: 9087283377 / ISBN 13: 9789087283377

Editore: Leiden University Press, 2019

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Riassunto:

This book explores the aesthetics, medial affordances, and cultural economics of monumental literary works of the present. Using a wide-ranging international archive of hefty tomes by authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bolaño, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgård, George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, and William T. Vollmann, van de Ven recuperates multiple strands of bigness that speak to the tenuous position of print literature in the present but also to the robust stature of literary discourse within our age of proliferating digital media. Her study makes a case for the cultural agency of the big book―as a material object and a discursive phenomenon, entangled in complex ways with questions of canonicity, mediality, gender, and power.

Van de Ven takes us into a contested bookish terrain beyond the 1,000-page mark, where issues of scale and readerly comprehension clash with authorial aggrandizement and the pleasures of binge reading and serial consumption.

Informazioni sugli autori:

Inge van de Ven is assistant professor of Cultural Studies at Tilburg University. 

Inge van de Ven is Assistant Professor of Online Culture in the Department of Culture Studies at Tilburg School of Humanities & Digital Sciences. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Utrecht University, where she also completed postdoctoral research on creativity in education. She was a 2018-’19 Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest.

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Titolo: Big Books in Times of Big Data
Casa editrice: Leiden University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2019
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: As New