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Routledge Digital Literary Studies

About the Book Series

This series publishes cutting-edge scholarship at the intersection of literature, media, and technology, with a focus on digital textuality, multimodal narratives, and the emergent interdisciplinary field of literary media. The series considers how digital literary studies engage broader questions of cultural memory, technological mediation, and the politics of representation. It prioritizes work that moves beyond textual analysis to examine the infrastructures, platforms, and creative practices shaping contemporary literary culture.

A wide range of methodological approaches is welcomed, including literary analysis, creative-critical inquiry, and historically or materially grounded studies of digital and post-digital writing.

3 Series Titles


Digital Literary Creative Practice Six Memos for Writers in the Current Millennium

Digital Literary Creative Practice: Six Memos for Writers in the Current Millennium

1st Edition

By David Thomas Henry Wright
May 29, 2025

In 1985, Italo Calvino proposed six values he deemed crucial to literature as it moved into the next millennium: lightness, quickness, ‘crystal’ exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and consistency. Using Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millennium as structure and methodology, this book ...

The Experimental Book Object Materiality, Media, Design

The Experimental Book Object: Materiality, Media, Design

1st Edition

Edited By Sami Sjöberg, Mikko Keskinen, Arja Karhumaa
April 13, 2025

The Experimental Book Object shows why and how books matter in the 21st century. Digital and audio platforms are commonplace, and other fields of art beyond literature have increasingly embraced books and publication as their medium of choice. Nevertheless, the manifold book object persists and ...

Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea Distant and Close Reading

Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea: Distant and Close Reading

1st Edition

By Jae-Yon Lee
November 29, 2024

Formation of Periodical Authorship in 1920s Korea argues that Korean authors who entered the literary scene during modern literature’s formative years were the subject mediated by periodicals. However, it has been difficult to substantiate this statement because periodicals, including magazines, ...

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