TY - BOOK AU - Ven,Inge van de TI - Big books in times of big data /Inge van de Ven T2 - Media SN - 9400603606 AV - QA76 .B543 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Leiden PB - Leiden University Press KW - Big data KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3368292&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -