Yra van Dijk

Dr. Yra van Dijk (1970) is full professor of Modern Dutch Literature at the University of Leiden and was a visiting scholar at UCSD in 2010–2011. Her Ph.D. on typography and poetry was published as a Dutch monograph (2006) and as an article in English in Word and Image (2011). She is currently researching materiality and media in digital culture (Journal of Dutch Literature, dichtung digital, Poetics). She is part of the collaborative research project ELMCIP, in which she focuses on the poetics of digital communities. Van Dijk also recently co-edited Reconsidering the Postmodern: European Literature beyond Relativism (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2011).

Publications

The Margins of Bookishness: Paratexts in Digital Literature
The Margins of Bookishness: Paratexts in Digital Literature
Yra van Dijk. © 2014. 22 pages.
In this chapter, the author approaches the paratexts of digital literature from a post-structuralist point of view, according to which a paratext cannot be seen as simply outside...