Welcome to The Literary Kindle

Literature has always kindled thought. Novels have introduced what is novel and helped us come to terms with it. But the bright fire of art, imagination, and expression that literature has lit is not fueled so much by paper any more. Does literature need print? Can e-ink and screens rival tree pulp and letter shapes pressed into its fibers?

Welcome to the Literary Kindle, an experiment in how electronic books are kindling and rekindling literacy in the 21st century. Yes! The title of our project is a pun. We are indeed using Amazon's Kindle and ebook platform to try the merits of a completely electronically based approach to experiencing literary study.

One of the texts we are reading on Kindle devices
in this course introducing literary study for today

Who We Are
We are members of an introduction to English studies course at Brigham Young University (held Winter semester, 2015). We are learning the basics of literary interpretation and the study of literature generally, but we are doing so with a very 21st-century approach: the eBook.