The Novel as the Book’s Future Anterior: Tom McCarthy’s Remainder and Ali Smith’s The Accidental
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The Novel as the Book’s Future Anterior : Tom McCarthy’s Remainder and Ali Smith’s The Accidental. / Lupton, Tina Jane.
In: Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2016, p. 504-518.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - The Novel as the Book’s Future Anterior
T2 - Tom McCarthy’s Remainder and Ali Smith’s The Accidental
AU - Lupton, Tina Jane
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Abstract This article asks what it means to consider a twenty-first-century novel as a machine able to talk about its own materiality. Is it a series of keystrokes or digital files or marks on a page? If, as Friedrich Kittler presumes, digital technology has boosted the autopoietic qualities of the media system, in what sense do paper books remain active components of this system and in what sense do they appear within it as old media, spoken for by the electronically mediated texts that represent them? Or have novels become comments on ...
AB - Abstract This article asks what it means to consider a twenty-first-century novel as a machine able to talk about its own materiality. Is it a series of keystrokes or digital files or marks on a page? If, as Friedrich Kittler presumes, digital technology has boosted the autopoietic qualities of the media system, in what sense do paper books remain active components of this system and in what sense do they appear within it as old media, spoken for by the electronically mediated texts that represent them? Or have novels become comments on ...
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 504
EP - 518
JO - Novel
JF - Novel
SN - 0029-5132
IS - 3
ER -
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