Since the earlier twentieth century, literary genres have traveled
across magnetic, wireless, and electronic planes. Literature may now be
anything from acoustic poetry and oral performance to verbal-visual
constellations in print and on screen, cinematic narratives, or
electronic textualities that range from hypertext to Flash.
New technologies have left their imprint on literature as a paper-based
medium, and vice versa. This volume explores the interactions between
literature and screenbased media over the past three decades. How has
literature turned to screen, how have screens undone the tyranny of the
page as a medium of literature, and how have screens affected the page
in literary writing? This volume answers these questions by uniquely
integrating perspectives from digital literary studies, on the one hand,
and film and literature studies, on the other.
"Page" and "screen" are familiar catchwords in both digital literary
studies and film and literature studies. The contributors reassess
literary practice at the edges of paper, electronic media, and film.
They show how the emergence of a new medium in fact reinvigorates the
book and the page as literary media, rather than signaling their
impending death.
While previous studies in this field have been restricted to the
digitization of literature alone, this volume shows the continuing
relevance of film as a cultural medium for contemporary literature. Its
integrative approach allows readers to situate current shifts within the
literary field in a wider, long-term perspective.
