The “New Alliances” in the Digital Age: The Book, the Science and the Byte
Keywords:
literary studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, literature and science, new media, metahistory, communication technologyAbstract
My paper focuses on the strained dynamics of contemporary literary studies, identifying the “new alliances” between the book, the science and the byte, the spectacular “turns” or the intensive trading of models in the area, as unmistakable symptoms of their self-induced status crisis and of academic visibility. It maps out these developments in a general perspective and finally takes a look at the Romanian case study.References
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