{"product_id":"programming-literature-hardcover","title":"Programming Literature - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Roach\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about the messy, archival worlds of literature and computing, and the myriad of relations that have existed between the two. Before J. M. Coetzee was a writer of Nobel-Prize winning novels, the South African was a programmer for one of the most significant Cold War supercomputer projects in Britain. Experimental British writer Christine Brooke-Rose worked at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. When not opining about modernism, Canadian literary critic Hugh Kenner was a devoted computer hobbyist. Literary scholars have often not known what to make of these 'other careers': intimidating, irrelevant, outside of the scope of literary studies, surely? When they do make links, it is often via the frame of formal logic that has dominated discussions of both computer history and literary modernism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book starts from a different assumption: that, far from irrelevant, these material experiences were significant in the development of the literary projects of writers including Coetzee, Brooke-Rose, Kenner, William Gaddis, and Kamau Brathwaite. It contends that it is in the practice and the archive, rather than on the plane of abstraction, that we can best see this influence. Addressing literary scholars, media and computer historians, and digital theorists alike, \u003cem\u003eProgramming Literature \u003c\/em\u003eproductively reframes contemporary debates around artificial intelligence, the value of the humanities, and tech culture by emphasizing just how material these worlds have always been.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Roach, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor of Contemporary Literature, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRebecca Roach is Associate Professor at the University of Birmingham where her research and teaching focuses on contemporary literary culture. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eLiterature and the Rise of the Interview\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), examined the form, practice, and technology of interviews. Prior to joining Birmingham in 2018, Dr Roach was a postdoctoral research associate at King's College London where she examined self-representation in new media. Before this, she completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford, a masters at the University of Edinburgh, and an undergraduate at the University of Oxford.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 8.62 x 5.72 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 27, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47499833901305,"sku":"9780198976561","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/fVT24kZ3OW9780198976561.webp?v=1773255750","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/programming-literature-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}