The Literariness of Media Art

by Maraike M. Marxsen, Claudia Benthien, Jordis Lau

The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of Russian Formalism, the term 'literariness' was coined. The driving force behind this theoretical inquiry was the desire to identify literature--and art in general--as a way of revitalizing human perception, which had been numbed by the automatization of everyday life. The transformative power of 'literariness'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138091510
• ISBN13: 9781138091511
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 322 Pages