On-Line / Off-Line: Between Text and Experience: Writing As a Lifestyle

Pluciennik, Jaroslaw (Editor)/ G?rdenfors, Peter (Editor)

ISBN 10: 8323340064 / ISBN 13: 9788323340065

Published by Jagiellonian Univ Pr, 2015

About this Item

402 pages. 9.00x7.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On-Line / Off-Line: Between Text and Experience: Writing As a Lifestyle
• Publisher: Jagiellonian Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8323340064
• ISBN 13: 9788323340065
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.67 kilograms

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Synopsis

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?

About the Author

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.