Next book project: The Aesthetics of Metadata: Redaction, Reference, the Archive in Contemporary Fiction

Key Points

• The project investigates how metadata shapes narrative structures in contemporary fiction, and how it impacts reader interpretation.
• It explores redaction as a literary device, revealing the underlying complexities of textual omission and meaning.
• The analysis builds on 45,000 words of text, framing the aesthetic significance of archives in storytelling.
• Emerging structures are established to better understand the interplay between metadata and narrative form.