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Liberature: A Book-Bound Genre

Liberature: A Book-Bound Genre

Bazarnik, Katarzyna

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 8323342016
ISBN13: 9788323342014
Publisher: Jagiellonian Univ Pr
Published: Feb 6 2018
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This book discusses the concept of liberature, a term coined by the Polish poet Zenon Fajfer in 1999 to refer to a kind of writing that fuses text with its material form into a conceptual whole in the space of the book. In her monograph, described by the author as the fruit of miscegenation between a scholar and a creative writer, Katarzyna Bazarnik explains how liberature is indebted to modernist explorations of the materiality of writing pointed out by Jerome McGann, as well as practices of presentification described by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. She flags affinities between liberature and related concepts: N. Katherine Hayles's technotexts, Jessica Pressman's bookishness, Lori Emerson's reading-writing interfaces, and Alison Gibbons's analyses of multimodal literature. Finally, reading liberature through contemporary genre theory, she proposes to see it as a multimodal, literary genre bound to the architecture of the material book.

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