Refresh the Book discusses the changing perceptions, functions, forms, as well as literary and artistic potential of the book in the digital age.

This essay collection explores the cultural functions the printed book performs in the digital age. It examines how the use of and attitude toward the book form have changed in light of the digital transformation of American media culture. Situated at the crossroads of American studies, literary studies, book studies,

In Bitstreams, Matthew G. Kirschenbaum distills twenty years of thinking about the intersection of digital media, textual studies, and literary archives to argue that bits--the ubiquitous ones and zeros of computing-- always depend on the material world that surrounds them to form the bulwark for preserving the future of literary

"Walter M. Brown Jr. has accomplished something extraordinary in this fine book. He brings into sharp focus the nexus between fervent and prayer and evocative preaching set with in the rich linguistic and poetic world of African-American spirituality."-Robert M. Franklin, Ph.D. Former President, Interdenominational Theological Center The premise used in

"If readers of Sara Tanderup Linkis’ "Something to hold on to ..." open the book in the expectation of entering a niche of literature and literary studies, they will leave it after having encountered a new highway in literature. Here, the traditional theme of memory and the most recent use