Big books in times of big data /Inge van de Ven.
Ven, Inge van de,
Big books in times of big data /Inge van de Ven. - Leiden : Leiden University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (251 pages) - Media / .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Big Books in Times of Big Data examines recent trends of size and scale in the novel in terms of the shift from the bound book to the newer materialities of the digital. Using a wide-ranging international archive of hefty tomes by authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bolaño, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgård, George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, and William T. Vollmann, Van de Ven reflects on the place of big book-bound literature in a media genealogy which includes film and television but also online databases, social media, selfies, and Global Information Systems. This study ma.
9400603606 9789400603608
Big data.
Electronic Books.
QA76 / .B543 2020
Big books in times of big data /Inge van de Ven. - Leiden : Leiden University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource (251 pages) - Media / .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Big Books in Times of Big Data examines recent trends of size and scale in the novel in terms of the shift from the bound book to the newer materialities of the digital. Using a wide-ranging international archive of hefty tomes by authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bolaño, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausgård, George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, and William T. Vollmann, Van de Ven reflects on the place of big book-bound literature in a media genealogy which includes film and television but also online databases, social media, selfies, and Global Information Systems. This study ma.
9400603606 9789400603608
Big data.
Electronic Books.
QA76 / .B543 2020