[Commlist] New book: The Baroque Technotext

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Intellect is pleased to announce that *The Baroque Technotext: 
Literature in a Digital Mediascape* 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-baroque-technotext>/, /by Elise 
Takehana is now available as an ebook. The hardback edition is currently 
available from our UK distributor.

To date, most criticism of print and digital technotexts – literary 
objects that foreground the role of their media of inscription – has 
emphasized the avant-garde contexts of a text’s production. /The Baroque 
Technotext/ opens new perspectives on this important and innovative 
literary canon, analysing the role of baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics 
in the emergence and possible futures of technotexts. Combining the 
insights of poststructuralist theory of the baroque, postcolonial theory 
of the neobaroque, and insightful critique of the prevailing modernist 
approaches to technotexts, /The Baroque Technotext/ reframes critical 
debate of contemporary experiments in literary practice in the late age 
of print. Analyses of works from authors including Jonathan Safran Foer, 
Chris Ware and David Clark are matched with reflections on other media 
texts – film, visual art and interface design – that have adopted 
baroque aesthetic tropes.

*_Table of Contents_*
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- Introduction*:* An Anamorphic Projection of the Title

- Reconciling Literary Study with Materiality

- Technotexts as a Focus

- Technotexts Beyond Modernism

- Baroque as the Other Focus

- Baroque Reason as Modernity’s Madness

- Prologue

- Choice

- Monads: A Harmonic Subjectivity for Technotextuality

- Mirrors

- Mise en Abyme: Mirrorish Dimensions Down to the Code

- Illusion

- Trompe L’Oeil: Blending Media and Synesthetic Knowing

- Surface

- Minoring: Baroque Cosmology and Criticizing from Within

- Code

- Collections and Navels: The Horror Vacui of the Database

- Coda

- References

- Index
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Please visit our website for more information: 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-baroque-technotext


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