Publisher's Synopsis
"This Book is intended for all those who value literary studies and who sense the coming change in how books are read, discussed, and written about in the digital age. It is a collaborative project, produced by students of an advanced writing course at Brigham Young University taught by Gideon Burton in May and June of 2011. It is an experiment in Book creation and in twenty-first century literary criticism. Our adventure into digital literary study has been sudden and frenetic, and the ragged edges are likely to show. But we have pressed on, pushing bravely back against second thoughts, intent to launch our little volume into the marketplace of ideas where it may reach real people who are wrestling with the powerful disruptions to reading and writing now in play. A good book, can wake us like a blow to the head. So can a vigorous literary experiment. We feel a bit battered, but far more awake to the present moment and to the ongoing vitality of "
Excerpt From: Gideon Omer Burton. "Writing About Literature in the Digital Age."
