In 1985, Italo Calvino proposed six values he deemed crucial to
literature as it moved into the next millennium: lightness, quickness,
‘crystal’ exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency.
Using Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium as structure
and methodology, this book conjoins literary studies with creative
practice to interrogate, extend/subvert, and then reflect on the
aesthetic and structural ambitions of multiple innovative print
authors (Italo Calvino, Zadie Smith, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf,
Bernardine Evaristo, Roberto Bolano, Rachel Cusk, Shahriar
Mandanipour, W.G. Sebald, Ross Gibson, Han Kang, and J.M. Coetzee)
reimagined in new media in order to develop a model for digital
literary practice-led research. This work contains four strands that
are presented simultaneously. First, this monograph explores the rise
of Calvino’s values within the Calvino corpus. Second, this
value’s application to a contemporary literary predicament is
explored through a digression. Third, conclusions from this
interrogation are drawn as they relate to digital literary culture.
Finally, the value’s importance is demonstrated through
examining/reflecting on contemporary digital literary creative
practice – both the author’s own and works created by contemporary
writers/artists who have engaged with the digital postmodern.
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Six Memos for Writers in the Current Millennium
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ISBN
9781040343784
Publisert
2024
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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