{"product_id":"theses-on-the-metaphors-of-digital-textual-history-paperback-softback-9781503614888","title":"Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History (Paperback \/ softback) 9781503614888","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTheses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartin Paul Eve (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503614888\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e436 pages, 3 tables, 11 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.615 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This book is a brilliant and engaging exploration of digital media—extraordinarily rich and deep, with wide-ranging source material and an exciting theoretical framework. It is omnivorously learned, yet immensely approachable. A true scholarly feat.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Michigan State University \"Eve's book is a fabulous read! It is a captivating exploration of books and digital artifacts. This book will find an eager readership in an audience interested in text technologies in the academy and beyond.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Orietta Da Rold, University of Cambridge \"What Eve accomplishes is making these otherwise difficult, technical, and confusing concepts accessible for humanists. For any student or scholar looking to begin their studies into digital textuality, I recommend\u003ci\u003eTheses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History\u003c\/i\u003e\"—Alijan Ozkiral, \u003ci\u003eH-Sci-Med-Tech\u003c\/i\u003e \"A champion of open-access scholarship and prolific writer in book history and digital humanities, Eve supports his grand scope with his enviably broad knowledge of the subject and relays it approachably to book history scholars, regardless of their training in computational history.\"—Shawna Ross, \u003ci\u003eSHARP News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin Paul Eve calls attention to the digital-textual metaphors that condition our experience of digital space, and traces their history as they interact with physical cultures. Eve posits that digital-textual metaphors move through three life phases. Initially they are descriptive. Then they encounter a moment of fracture or rupture. Finally, they go on to have a prescriptive life of their own that conditions future possibilities for our text environments—even when the metaphors have become untethered from their original intent. Why is \"whitespace\" white? Was the digital page always a foregone conclusion? Over a series of theses, Eve addresses these and other questions in order to understand the moments when digital-textual metaphors break and to show us how it is that our textual softwares become locked into paradigms that no longer make sense.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributing to book history, literary studies, new media studies, and material textual studies, \u003ci\u003eTheses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History\u003c\/i\u003e provides generative insights into the metaphors that define our digital worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  1. Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Virtual Page Almost Never Existed\u003cbr\u003e  3. Digital Whitespace Is the Seriality of Musical Silence\u003cbr\u003e  4. Digital Text Is Geopolitically Structured\u003cbr\u003e  5. Digital Text Is Multidimensional\u003cbr\u003e  6. Windows Are Allegories of Political Liberalism\u003cbr\u003e  7. Libraries Are Assemblages of Recombinable Anxiety Fragments\u003cbr\u003e  8. Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost\u003cbr\u003e  9. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Works Cited\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670831067416,"sku":"9781503614888","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/theses-on-the-metaphors-of-digital-textual-history-paperback-softback-9781503614888","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}