Self-Reflexive Materialities in Contemporary American Fiction

Authors

  • Lizzy Pournara Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-2_17

Keywords:

materialities of literature, metamedia, book forms

Abstract

Review of Alexander Starre, Metamedia: American Book Fictions and Literary Print Culture after Digitization. Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2015, 316 pp. ISBN 978-1-60938-359-6.

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Author Biography

Lizzy Pournara, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Lizzy Pournara is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She also holds a BA in English Literature and Language (2011) and an MA in English Literature (2013). Her research interests focus on contemporary American poetry, multimodality, artists’ books, digital literature, book-making and creative writing. Her Ph.D. thesis revolves around the aspect of multimodality in contemporary poetic practice and investigates the impact of inscription technologies on creative writing practices and formation of reading habits.

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Published

2016-07-01

How to Cite

Pournara, Lizzy. 2016. “Self-Reflexive Materialities in Contemporary American Fiction”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 4 (2):292-95. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-2_17.

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2016): Digital Literary Studies 2

Section

Recensões | Reviews

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