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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rodzvilla, John

Titel

Andrew Piper: Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2012, 192 pp., Hardcover, $22.50, ISBN: 978-0-226-66978-5

Ist Teil von

• Publishing Research Quarterly, 2014, Vol.30 (4), p.419-420

Ort / Verlag

Boston: Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

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• Pub Res Q (2014) 30:419420 DOI 10.1007/s12109-014-9383-2 BOOK REVIEW Andrew Piper: Book Was There: Reading in Electronic Times The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2012, 192 pp., Hardcover, $22.50, ISBN: 978-0-226-66978-5 John Rodzvilla Published online: 4 October 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Andrew Pipers rst project at .txtLAB, a digital humanities laboratory at McGill University, was an exploration of the inuence of Goethes Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (The Sorrows of Young Werther) on the larger print culture of eighteenth-century Europe. Pipers work on Goethe and the labs subsequent work on mapping social networks in detective ction and tracing echoes of St. Augustines language of conversion in modern autobiography are part of a growing eld of literary research that analyses large corpora of books in order to highlight large-scale literary phenomena. Piper is a reader who has thought deeply about his relationship with books and the J. Rodzvilla (&) Electronic Publisher in Residence, Emerson College, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116-4624, USAe-mail: john_rodzvilla@emerson.edu 123 420 Pub Res Q (2014) 30:419420 activity of reading and has come to the conclusion that its not the object but our interactions with the object that informs the reading experience.