The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture: Medium, Object, Metaphor

Introduction1.The Printed Book, Contemporary Media Culture, and American StudiesHeike Schaefer and Alexander Starre
Section I: The Printed Book and Formations of Knowledge in the Digital Age2.The Books That Count: Big Data vs. Narrative in Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Joshua Cohen's Book of NumbersRegina Schober
3.US Print Culture, Literary Narrative, and Slow Reading in the Age of Big Data: Steve Tomasula's VAS: An Opera in FlatlandAntje Kley
4."Books and Books and Books ... an Oasis of the Forbidden": Writing and Print Culture as Metaphor and Medium for Survival in Margaret Atwood's Novel The Handmaid's TaleReingard M. Nischik
5.Zines in the Library: Underground Communication and the Property Regimes of Book CultureJanice Radway
Section II: The Book as Commodity and Fetish 6.The Book between Media Convergence, Media Specificity, and Diverse Reading Communities in Present-Day US CultureChristoph Bläsi
7.Michael Cunningham's The Hours: Homage to the Book in a Time of Media TransformationAleida Assmann
8."There's Nothing Quite Like a Real Book": Stop-Motion BookishnessJessica Pressman
Section III: Redesigning the Codex: Current Experiments in and beyond the Book9.Remediation, Oral Storytelling, and the Printed Book: The Stylistic Strategies of Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year SwordAlison Gibbons
10.Book Design as Literary Strategy: Aka Morchiladze's Novel Santa Esperanza and Its Poetics of Playful StorytellingMonika Schmitz-Emans
11.Authorial Impression and Remediation in Anne Carson's Quasi-Artist's Book NoxKiene Brillenburg Wurth
Afterword: 12.The Storied BookGarrett Stewart