... increasingly able to speak for and of itself and to replace, in this capacity, traditionally human forms of self-reflection is a scenario that Tom McCarthy's Remainder and Ali Smith 's The Accidental each take seriously. Both novels promote consciousness of bookishness; of the codex as a machine...

... how the dispersive readings that helped define Scott's nineteenth‐century afterlife might also prove useful points of reference for twenty‐first‐century efforts to decolonize novel studies’ understanding of its object. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Walter Scott codex...

... the publishing industry or the history of the codex. Chapters 3 and 4 do make a compelling case for seeing the relationship between the rise of the novel and religious writing in terms of their place within (or, in the final chapter, outside of) the print marketplace. Yet the first half of the book suggests...

... of the codex's paratextual framing, interlinking with all those once novel and now all-too-familiar practices of web-serviced, web-enhanced, web-distracted reading: the reading of hyperattention, as N. Katherine Hayles would have it. There is no possible future world in which such practices—and many others...

.... Only Revolutions “fetishizes its codexical format” (160): the visually experimental novel consists of two parallel narratives printed at a 180-degree rotation, marked with different colors and typographic flourishes. Yet this novel is also “deeply penetrated by digitality” (163), for Danielewski...

... and dissemination of texts online will institute new models of textuality that will outcompete the novel. Will Self uses Marshall McLuhan's concept of a “Gutenberg mind”—a mind organized by or orientated toward information presented in a “codex”—to argue that, as we shift from mostly presenting information in books...

... that is lodged within codex form.” Interspersing the Waverley Novels with the practice of scrapbooking and commonplacing, whereby extracts from the novels were repurposed by their readers, Lynch shows how Scott's texts, with their multiple narrators, quotations, and epigraphs, were both prized as the pinnacle...

... suggested that the natural world be understood as a codex writ with divine messages when he suggested, in his Enarrations on the Psalms , that “the world should become as a book to you, so that you may see” ( liber tibi sit orbis terrarium, ut haec videas ) (qtd. in Blumenberg 49 ). He went on to add...

... a victory for any contestant but rather the opportunity for some cessation of hostility, a “resting place,” in Lauren Berlant's terms ( 291 ). In the wake of Henry Jenkins's analysis of “convergence culture” and the shadow of declarations (already proved untimely) that the codex is a superannuated form...

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... . An Essay Concerning Human Understanding . Ed. Nidditch Peter . Oxford : Clarendon , 1975 . Lupton Christina . “ Contingency, Codex, the Eighteenth-Century Novel .” English Literary History 81 . 4 ( 2014 ): 1173 – 92 . Mack Ruth . “ Hogarth’s Practical Aesthetics .” Mind...