Interactive Digital Books and Interpretive Play

Kathryn Brown

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6 Interactive Digital Books and Interpretive Play

In: Reproducing Images and Texts / La reproduction des images et des textes

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Pages:: 84–96

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468337_007

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Focusing on installations, programs for desktop computers, and apps for mobile devices, this article debates tensions between the experience of text on screen and on paper in order to distinguish the significance of “playing” with works in electronic media. Rather than considering the digital book as a dematerialization of the codex, it is argued that interactive digital books extend aspects of European book history and engage the reader’s body in innovative ways for the purpose of expanding the range of “performances” that can be generated by a text. The act of reading is identified as an essentially open practice in which meaning is created from a work’s multiple recombinations.

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Reproducing Images and Texts / La reproduction des images et des textes

Series: Word and Image Interactions, Volume: 10

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004468337

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 30 Nov 2021

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Part 1 Walter Benjamin, Before and After / Autour de Walter Benjamin

Part 2 Between Page and Screen / Entre la page et l’écran

Part 3 Exhibitions and Performances / Expositions et performances

Part 4 The Right to Reproduce / Le Droit de reproduire

Part 5 Hybridities and transfers / Hybridations et transferts

Part 6 Copies, Parodies and Recycling / Copies, parodies et reprises

Part 7 Conclusion and Further Perspectives / Conclusion et ouvertures

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