Electronic Literature as Paratextual Construction

The article reflects on how electronic literature and affiliated or related fields describe themselves paratextually. It focus on metatexts which address the e-lit field or genre as a whole, rather than individual works.

Works referenced:

Title	Author	Year
La Machine à Écrire (The typewriter)	Jean A. Baudot	1964

Critical writing referenced:

Title	Author	Year
Art as a Social System	Niklas Luhmann	2000
Developing an Identity for the Field of Electronic Literature: Reflections on the Electronic Literature Organization Archives	Scott Rettberg	2012
Die Welten der Medien. Grundlagen und Perspektiven der Medienbeobachtung	Siegfried J. Schmidt	1996
Electronic Literature Seen from a Distance: The Beginnings of a Field	Jill Walker Rettberg	2012
Electronic Literature: What is it?	N. Katherine Hayles	2007
Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Culture		2014
How to Construct the Genre of Digital Poetry: A User Manual	Friedrich W. Block	2010
How to Construct the Genre of Digital Poetry: A User Manual	Friedrich W. Block	2010
Manifesto	Joseph Tabbi
on “e-literature” as a field	Lori Emerson	2011
p0es1s. Rückblick auf die digitale Poesie	Friedrich W. Block	2015
Paratexts: Thresholds of Interpretation	Gérard Genette	2001
Social Systems	Niklas Luhmann	1995
The Margins of Bookishness: Paratexts in Digital Literature	Yra van Dijk

Organizations referenced:

Title
Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL)
Electronic Literature Organization

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