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Bookishness
Loving Books in a Digital Age
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Jessica Pressman
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English
Published/Copyright:
2020
About this book
Jessica Pressman explores the rise of “bookishness” as an identity and an aesthetic strategy that proliferates from store-window décor to experimental writing. Ranging from literature to kitsch objects, stop-motion animation films to book design, she considers the multivalent meanings of books in contemporary culture.
Author / Editor information
Jessica Pressman is associate professor of English and comparative literature at San Diego State University, where she cofounded the Digital Humanities Initiative. She is the author of Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media (2014); coauthor of Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone’s Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit} (2015); and coeditor of Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era (2013) and Book Presence in a Digital Age (2018).
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Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland:
Jessica Pressman’s great strength lies in her wonderful touch for the material. Her expansive command of exemplars runs the gamut from the high literary to cultural kitsch. Bookishness offers that rare and enviable combination of fascinating source material and an easily transportable take-away—the title term itself, which is sure to become widely adopted and relied upon.
Jessica Pressman’s great strength lies in her wonderful touch for the material. Her expansive command of exemplars runs the gamut from the high literary to cultural kitsch. Bookishness offers that rare and enviable combination of fascinating source material and an easily transportable take-away—the title term itself, which is sure to become widely adopted and relied upon.
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 24, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9780231551199
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9780231551199
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
