The Novel as the Book’s Future Anterior: Tom McCarthy’s Remainder and Ali Smith’s The Accidental

Tina Jane Lupton

The Novel as the Book’s Future Anterior: Tom McCarthy’s Remainder and Ali Smith’s The Accidental

Institut for Engelsk, Germansk og Romansk

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Abstract This article asks what it means to consider a twenty-first-century novel as a machine able to talk about its own materiality. Is it a series of keystrokes or digital files or marks on a page? If, as Friedrich Kittler presumes, digital technology has boosted the autopoietic qualities of the media system, in what sense do paper books remain active components of this system and in what sense do they appear within it as old media, spoken for by the electronically mediated texts that represent them? Or have novels become comments on ...

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Novel: A Forum on Fiction
Vol/bind	49
Udgave nummer	3
Sider (fra-til)	504-518
ISSN	0029-5132
Status	Udgivet - 2016

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