Big Books in Times of Big Data

by Inge Van de Ven

Big Books in Times of Big Data examines recent trends of size and scale in the novel in terms of the shift from the bound book to the newer materialities of the digital. Using a wide-ranging international archive of hefty tomes by authors such as Mark Z. Danielewski, Roberto Bola o, Elena Ferrante, and Karl Ove Knausg rd, George R.R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, and William T. Vollmann, Van de Ven reflects on the place of big book-bound literature in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9087283377
• ISBN13: 9789087283377
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Leiden University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"