Comparative Textual Media: Transforming the Humanities in the Postprint Era
N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman
Abstract
This book argues that the humanities may be re-invigorated by adopting a comparative media framework as a basis for curricula re-design, faculty scholarship, and student-oriented learning. With twelve essays ranging from classical Greek and Roman bookroll scrolls to locative street art, Renaissance documents to contemporary computer games, Comparative Textual Media offers a proof of concept for the surprising conjunctions and material specificities that a comparative textual media framework can energize and enable. With extraordinary historical range, these essays by outstanding scholars in a ... More
This book argues that the humanities may be re-invigorated by adopting a comparative media framework as a basis for curricula re-design, faculty scholarship, and student-oriented learning. With twelve essays ranging from classical Greek and Roman bookroll scrolls to locative street art, Renaissance documents to contemporary computer games, Comparative Textual Media offers a proof of concept for the surprising conjunctions and material specificities that a comparative textual media framework can energize and enable. With extraordinary historical range, these essays by outstanding scholars in a variety of fields demonstrate the promise of this paradigm to construct powerful comparisons and intervene constructively in contemporary discussions about the current state of the humanities.
Keywords:
media specificity,
media materiality,
media framework,
practice-based research,
recursivity,
media theory,
curricula reform
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780816680030 |
| Published to Minnesota Scholarship Online: August 2015 |
DOI:10.5749/minnesota/9780816680030.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
N. Katherine Hayles, editor
Professor, Literature Program, Duke University
Jessica Pressman, editor
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