Online/Offline - Between Text and Experience: Writing as a Lifestyle

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-83-233-4006-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

This volume raises provocative questions about the status of words and literature in contemporary culture. It argues that words and images are equal and that the vast number of text messages, e-mails, tweets, comments, blogs, and daily social network posts confirms textuality's central role in new media. This is especially true of writing, as old and new forms mix online and off, reconfiguring so prolifically that no single theory can explain it, let alone project its future. This volume explores multiple questions in depth: are microblogs a new literary genre? What happens when Japanese haiku crosses cultures? Is writing still an act of individuality or has it become a modern technological innovation?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pluciennik, Jaroslaw

Gärdenfors, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Jaroslaw Pluciennik is professor of literary theory at the Institute of Culture at Lodz University.

Peter Gärdenfors is a professor in the department of philosophy at Lund University.