Contemporary Textual Aesthetics examines various contemporary authorial enterprises and editorial initiatives

which invite us to carefully consider ways in which texts are being fashioned. Authors and editors give birth to original

types of texts and books: innovative, unconventional or experimental novels, collaborative illustrated books, collective

artist's books, hybrid or multimodal artefacts, and performative, multimedia book-objects. The essays in this volume

explore a variety of texts as well as their frontiers and thresholds, and propose redefinitions of the book beyond the

boundaries of the traditional codex format and its inherent material ink-and-paper limits and constraints. They offer

a variety of examples of contemporary textual practices, and ground-breaking, thought-provoking book projects from

many cultural perspectives and artistic backgrounds: France, Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Great Britain and the

United States of America.

Book Practices & Textual Itineraries is a series of peer-reviewed book-length publications devoted to the study

of book history and textual scholarship. It traces evolutions in the production, transmission and reception of

books and texts over time and across cultural and disciplinary boundaries. It likewise examines new practices

that are developing in response to the acceleration of textual production and exchange provoked by electronic

media, and considers their significance for the editing and interpretation of literary works. Published at the

Université de Lorraine, with an international editorial advisory board, the series aims to facilitate dialogue on

book history and textual scholarship between scholars from France, Europe and the English-speaking world.