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1. Electronic Literature

   Entry on electronic literature providing a history of the term and exploring its contended usage.

   Electronic literature is a generalized term used to describe a wide variety of computational literary practices beneath one broad umbrella, defined by the Electronic Literature Organization as “works with important literary aspects that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer.”

   Scott Rettberg - 01.11.2013 - 09:58

2. Electronic Literature and Online Literary Databases: The PO.EX and ELMCIP Cases

   This essay reflects on the shift of user interaction operated by online literary archives and databases. One can easily recognize a change of scenery happening in the current networked world, given the way authors and general public produce, catalog, tag, access, research, analyze, preserve and share knowledge.
   In the field of electronic literature, the creation of several collaborative and open access databases attests this trend. For this purpose, I review two of them: the PO.EX Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature and the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base. My aim is to contribute to an informed view on how these online literary databases are shaped and are shaping the field: What is their scope? How do they operate? What kind of navigation and user input exists? Why should they really matter?
   Finally, I use these insights to develop some considerations concerning the relations between memory and archive, and different perspectives on electronic literature preservation.

   (Source: Author's Abstract)

   Alvaro Seica - 14.05.2014 - 14:29

3. In the Absence of the Publisher's Peritext

   To Genette, the basic “nature of the paratext” is functional (7). In his theoretical account, he
   presents a number of paratextual units (title, dedications, epigraphs etc.) and proofs its functionality through the analysis of respective examples. At the same time, he alerts that
   paratexts may be unproductive and notes: “from the fact that the paratext always fulfills a
   function, it does not necessarily follow that the paratext always fulfills its function well” (409).
   That said, paratexts may be dysfunctional in that a paratext does not meet the function Genette
   originally envisioned. A paratext is also dysfunctional if it is absent where it’d be expected: based
   and bound to the materiality of the book-as-object, Genette has developed a map to locate the
   types of paratexts he designates. As per Genette, a preface supposedly precedes a work and an
   epigraph shouldn’t intervene a body’s text. Likewise, the publisher’s peritext spans around and
   within the body of a work, while the epitext is located outside of a work’s material body. A paratext’s location thus defines its function.
   

   Alvaro Seica - 29.08.2014 - 10:23

4. Electronic Literature in China

   In her article "Electronic Literature in China" Jinghua Guo discusses how the reception and the critical contexts of production of online literature are different in China from those in the West despite similar developments in digital technology. Guo traces the development of Chinese digital literature, its history, and the particular characteristics and unique cultural significance in the context of Chinese culture where communality is an aspect of society. Guo posits that Chinese electronic literature is larger than such in the West despite technical drawbacks and suggests that digitality represents a positive force in contemporary Chinese culture and literature.

   Eirik Herfindal - 17.09.2020 - 16:21