By Jessica Pressman
Whereas most crucial reviews of born-digital literature have a good time it as a postmodern artwork shape with roots in modern applied sciences and social interactions, Digital Modernism presents another family tree. Grounding her argument in literary heritage, media reviews, and the perform of close-reading, Jessica Pressman pairs modernist works by way of Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Bob Brown, with significant electronic works like William Poundstone's Project for the Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}, Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota, and Judd Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter to illustrate how the modernist circulate of the Twenties and Thirties laid the basis for the options of digital literature. consequently, Digital Modernism makes the case for contemplating those electronic creations as "literature" and argues for the price of studying them conscientiously, heavily, and inside of literary history.
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In Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism (2008) Garrick Davis collects and republishes essays by modernist and New Critical writers in “the first anthology of New Criticism to be printed in fifty years,” as the blurb on the book’s back cover proclaims. Frank Lentricchia and Andrew DuBois’s Close Reading: The Reader (2003) focuses not only on known New Critics but also on more contemporary efforts at close reading. This valuable volume includes essays by Helen Vendler, Franco Moretti, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, which collectively show how close reading extends beyond the expected dates and political perspectives of those who first honed the craft.
Many of the theorists know as New Critics built their reputations reading and teaching these difficult works. Close reading provided a method of appreciating the experiments of literary modernism, and the New Criticism, in turn, served to canonize modernism. 57 Indeed, the codification of close reading was essential to establishing literary criticism as a field with a modern literary canon, and modernist literature was central to that canon. ”58 Close reading was a central part of this endeavor.
Frank Lentricchia and Andrew DuBois’s Close Reading: The Reader (2003) focuses not only on known New Critics but also on more contemporary efforts at close reading. This valuable volume includes essays by Helen Vendler, Franco Moretti, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, which collectively show how close reading extends beyond the expected dates and political perspectives of those who first honed the craft. ”66 In addition to the republication of New Critical texts, scholarly volumes that reconsider the New Criticism are also emerging.