디지털 시대의 인쇄문학: 『종이로 만든 사람들』과 『코드의 나무』를 중심으로
Print Novels in a Digital Age: The People of Paper and Tree of Codes
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This paper aims to explore how print novels are undergoing and managing transformations and changes influenced by digitization through the concept of materiality and intermediation. From the viewpoint of Posthumanism, just as information cannot exist without being embodied through any substrate, a novel should be considered not as an abstract and autonomous construct, but rather as a material medium. To reveal the materiality of print novels as media, I analyze two novels, Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper and Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes. The study of digital literature is significant as it leads us to re-estimate the singular attributes of print novels in contrast to digital literature. The People of Paper uses physical properties of print novels such as various typographies, images, signs, and so on, besides languages. Tree of Codes, as an artists’ book, emphasizes the physicality and materiality of print books by transforming its form and relating them to signifying practices, thus showing that a book’s contents and forms are inseparably interrelated and interacting in the meaning-making process. Plascencia and Foer reveal a keen awareness of writing as a materializing process through their experimental attempts. It not only shows the traces of transformation printed books have undergone from the digitization, but also suggests its potential to absorb the influence of digitization, remediate, and appropriate it with the print tradition. These experiments exemplify the intermediation between digital and print literature and suggest the emergent possibility of a new literary.
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This paper aims to explore how print novels are undergoing and managing transformations and changes influenced by digitization through the concept of materiality and intermediation. From the viewpoint of Posthumanism, just as information cannot exist without being embodied through any substrate, a novel should be considered not as an abstract and autonomous construct, but rather as a material medium. To reveal the materiality of print novels as media, I analyze two novels, Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper and Jonathan Safran Foer's Tree of Codes. The study of digital literature is significant as it leads us to re-estimate the singular attributes of print novels in contrast to digital literature. The People of Paper uses physical properties of print novels such as various typographies, images, signs, and so on, besides languages. Tree of Codes, as an artists’ book, emphasizes the physicality and materiality of print books by transforming its form and relating them to signifying practices, thus showing that a book’s contents and forms are inseparably interrelated and interacting in the meaning-making process. Plascencia and Foer reveal a keen awareness of writing as a materializing process through their experimental attempts. It not only shows the traces of transformation printed books have undergone from the digitization, but also suggests its potential to absorb the influence of digitization, remediate, and appropriate it with the print tradition. These experiments exemplify the intermediation between digital and print literature and suggest the emergent possibility of a new literary.
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