By Jessica Pressman
Whereas most important stories of born-digital literature rejoice it as a postmodern paintings shape with roots in modern applied sciences and social interactions, Digital Modernism presents another family tree. Grounding her argument in literary background, media reports, and the perform of close-reading, Jessica Pressman pairs modernist works via Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Bob Brown, with significant electronic works like William Poundstone's Project for the Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota, and Judd Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter to illustrate how the modernist circulate of the Nineteen Twenties and Thirties laid the basis for the techniques of digital literature. therefore, Digital Modernism makes the case for contemplating those electronic creations as "literature" and argues for the price of analyzing them conscientiously, heavily, and inside literary history.
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We can learn from their example because now, more than ever before, close reading can serve to bridge this divide. When it comes to digital literature, there is no separation between science and literary art. 83 Web-based digital literature exacerbates this point because it exists as part of a network (the Internet) and thus challenges the ability to identify the piece’s perimeters or proclaim its autonomy. What we learn by close reading digital literature is that one cannot simply focus on textual formal devices but must consider how they are formatted and in which contextual networks they are produced, distributed, and accessed.
While standing in line at the cinema, Woody Allen’s character grows increasingly aggravated by the man behind him explicating loudly and pompously about M cLuhan’s theory of hot and cool media. Allen turns around and confronts the man, who then introduces himself as a professor of television and culture at Columbia. Allen critiques the professor’s summary of McLuhan and then steps aside to pull into the frame none other than Marshall McLuhan himself. ” McLuhan’s exclamation is more than an intellectual’s fantasty, on the part of Allen’s character; it is actually a self-deprecating comment whose comic punch line comes at McLuhan’s expense.
The question of how to read digital literature is thus not only of interest to a sub-set of academics but part of a much wider 22 DIGITAL MODERNISM cultural discussion about literacy in a digital age. In an earlier age, the New Critics turned to close reading individual works of literary art as a means of bridging the emergent divide between science and the humanities. We can learn from their example because now, more than ever before, close reading can serve to bridge this divide. When it comes to digital literature, there is no separation between science and literary art.