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- Book, Text, Medium
- Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
- Book, Text, Medium
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Prospectus
- Intro\Retro
- Part I The Hold of the Codex
- Part II The Grip of Inscription
- Part III The Give of Medium
- Chapter 5 Phrasing the Sayable
- Chapter 6 Between Language and Text
- Parting Words
- Notes
- Index
Parting Words
from Part III - The Give of Medium
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2020
- Book, Text, Medium
- Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
- Book, Text, Medium
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Prospectus
- Intro\Retro
- Part I The Hold of the Codex
- Part II The Grip of Inscription
- Part III The Give of Medium
- Chapter 5 Phrasing the Sayable
- Chapter 6 Between Language and Text
- Parting Words
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Mine in closure, these parting words, looking back on many a word parted and regrouped in textual passages behind us: words annexed or merely wrenched wide by the next in line, all as allowed – as if aloud – in that medium of reading known as language. Given the “sustained conjunction of book studies, textual studies, and media studies” promised at the start, what has actually been sustained in this alignment (as initially rephrased) of “book history, verbal analysis, and media theory”? Sustained – and amplified. How and where have the tactilities of the codex under the estimate of Conceptual art, on the one hand, and the abstractions of language philosophy as media theory, on the other, converged to energize a more tangible sense of the linguistic text?
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- Book, Text, MediumCross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age, pp. 215 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021