Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations for Steve Tomasula's Major Works; Introduction: Composition, Emergence, Sensation: Science and New Media in the Novels of Steve Tomasula David Banash and Andrea Spain; Part One Bodies, Signs, Codes, and Books; 1 The Work of Art after the Mechanical Age: Materiality, Narrative, and the Real in the Work of Steve Tomasula Mary K. Holland; 2 "The Material is the Message": Coded Bodies and Embodied Codes in Steve Tomasula's VAS: An Opera in Flatland Anthony Enns

3 Encoding the Body, Questioning Legacy: Reflections on Intersemiotic Experiments in Steve Tomasula's VAS: An Opera in Flatland Françoise Sammarcelli4 Steve Tomasula's VAS, or What if Novels Were Books? R. M. Berry; Part Two Genealogies of Representation; 5 Literary Archeologies in Steve Tomasula's The Book of Portraiture Flore Chevaillier; 6 Beyond Human Scale: Steve Tomasula's The Book of Portraiture N. Katherine Hayles; 7 Mining the Gap: Word, Image, and Loss in Tomasula's The Book of Portraiture Birger Vanwesenbeeck; Part Three New Media and the Novel

8 Touch and Decay: Tomasula's TOC on iPad Kathi Inman Berens9 Intermediality in Steve Tomasula's TOC: A New Media Novel: A Semiological Analysis Anne Hurault-Paupe; 10 Ontological Metalepses, Unnatural Narratology, and Locality: A Politics of the [[ Page ]] in Tomasula's VAS & TOC Lance Olsen; Part Four Writing Wonder; 11 A Book, an Atlas, and an Opera: Steve Tomasula's Fictions of Science as Science Fiction Pawel Frelik; 12 "Do We Not Bleed?" "The Color of Flesh" in a Pop Cyborg World Anne Larue

13 Enumeration and the Form of the Short Story in Steve Tomasula's Once Human Françoise Palleau-Papin14 Steve Tomasula's Work of Wonder Anne-Laure Tissut; Afterword: An Interview with Steve Tomasula; Contributors; Bibliography; Index