The Gravity of the Leaf: Phenomenologies of Literary Inscription in Media-Constituted Diegetic Worlds

John Cayley reports on writing and the practice of literary art in the immersive 3D audio-visual environment of the Cave at Brown University, addressing the use of text-as-surface in a three-dimensional space. He develops a conception of new media as “complex surfaces” based on Cave writing courses to confront the relationship between language and embodiment, language and materiality—always attempting to develop a specific literary aesthetics.

(Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)

Works referenced:

Title	Author	Year
lens	John Cayley	2006

Critical writing that references this:

Title	Author	Publisher	Year
Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres		Transcript	2010
Digital Literature: Theoretical and Aesthetic Reflections	Luciana Gattass		2011
Of Presence and Electronic Literature	Luciana Gattass	Bloomsbury Academic	2018
Productions of Presence: Sensing Electronic Literature	Luciana Gattass		2012

Teaching Resource using this Critical Writing:

Resource	Teaching Resource Type	Author	Year
Electronic Literature (DIKULT 203, Fall 2011)	Syllabus	Davin Heckman	2011

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