Lyricism is on the wane, and suspense and humor and pacing are shedding their stigmas and taking their place as the core literary technologies of the 21st century".
Just as the computerised "paperless office" has turned out to be a voracious gobbler of trees, so the world of virtual words is proving a warm friend to that most tangible of literary technologies, the book.
How quaint the literary criticism of Lionel Trilling can seem, now that successive waves of structuralism, deconstruction, cultural studies, postcolonialism and other literary technologies have transformed university departments of literature.
Do you want to trade in your soulless faux-literary technology for its worth in good old fashioned books?
Faber and Touch Press released their iPad app for T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land in early June, and saw it rise up the App Store charts fuelled by acclaim from the literary and technology press, as well as featured placement from Apple.
Twitter writing "is in the process of becoming a new literary form," the technology forecaster Paul Saffo says.
One was written using the literary style or technology of 'autofiction,' while the other was written in Ruby 2.2.2 using Sinatra 1.4.6," Synthetic Piracy says.
Many of these papers continue to be reprinted and commented upon by historians, philosophers, literary critics, science technology and society scholars, and biologists.
Just think: every thorny literary problem solved by modern technology.
Modern technology, rather than literary history, is fuelling an upsurge in poetry.
