{"product_id":"theses-on-the-metaphors-of-digital-textual-history-9781503614888","title":"Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History","description":"\u003cp\u003eDigital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin Paul Eve calls attention to the digital-textual metaphors that condition our experience of digital space, and traces their history as they interact with physical cultures. Eve posits that digital-textual metaphors move through three life phases. Initially they are descriptive. Then they encounter a moment of fracture or rupture. Finally, they go on to have a prescriptive life of their own that conditions future possibilities for our text environments-even when the metaphors have become untethered from their original intent. Why is \"whitespace\" white? Was the digital page always a foregone conclusion? Over a series of theses, Eve addresses these and other questions in order to understand the moments when digital-textual metaphors break and to show us how it is that our textual softwares become locked into paradigms that no longer make sense.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributing to book history, literary studies, new media studies, and material textual studies, \u003ci\u003eTheses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History\u003c\/i\u003e provides generative insights into the metaphors that define our digital worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Paul Eve\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eClose Reading with Computers\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2019.)\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50913326530834,"sku":"9781503614888","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_21e44248-baff-47aa-a316-5a0d33d5269c.jpg?v=1738782121","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/theses-on-the-metaphors-of-digital-textual-history-9781503614888","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}