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Exploiting Kairos in Electronic Literature: A Rhetorical Analysis
The purpose of this study is to expand on Wayne Booth's work in the Rhetoic of Fiction regarding methods directing readers toward understanding in fiction to include the possibilities for pursuation avaiable in electronic mediums. The story theorizes the the answers to the following: How are writers in electronic spaces appropirating, expanding, and subverting electronic devices honed in print? How has the kairos, or situational context, of electronic spaces been exploited? What new rhetorical devices are being developed in electronic spaces? What does the dialogue between print-based and electronic-based works offers to rhetorical scholars in terms of rhetorical analysis and composition?
Kristina Gulvik Nilsen - 18.10.2011 - 21:28
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Reading Practices in Electronic Literature: A Dialogic Approach
Writers experimenting with electronic literature who remediate classic literary content provide a nexus for understanding rhetorical techniques evolving from print-based practices. Further, Mikhail Bakhtin's theories of dialogism provide a basis for the critical analysis of remediated texts. Therefore, this presentation advocates looking at the evolving rhetoric of electronic literature dialogically, in other words, analyzing works that remediate familiar themes and structures from print-based contexts into electronic mediums. Examples will be drawn from Shelley Jackson's "Patchwork Girl" George Hartley's "A Madlib Frost Poem," Peter Howard's "Peter's Haiku Generator," Edward Picot's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," and Helena Bulaja's "Croatian Tales of Long Ago."
(Source: Author's abstract, 2008 ELO Conference site)
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 20:45
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Towards an Art of Rhetoric in Electronic Literary Works: The Figures of Manipulation
On the basis of electronic literary works, we can identify specific rhetorical figures in interactive writing: the figures of manipulation. It is a category on its own, along with figures of diction, construction, meaning and thought. For example, the figure of appearance/disappearance (responding to an action of the reader) is as a key figure among the figures of manipulation.
What is emphasized in such figures is the coupling action/behavior, which could be considered as a basic unit in interactive writing. This coupling can be conceived independently from the medias (text, image, video) it relies on. Thus, it seems relevant to have an a-media approach when defining an art of rhetoric in interactive writing.
(Source: Author's abstract, 2008 ELO Conference)
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 23:32
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The rhetoric of interactive art works
In this contribution, I identify rhetorical figures that are specific to interactive writing: figures of manipulation (meaning gestual manipulation). It's a category on its own, along with figures of diction, construction, meaning and thought. In many computer art works, the artists use the figures of manipulation to introduce a loss of grasp.
What is emphasized in such figures is the coupling action/behavior, which could be considered as a basic unit in interactive writing. This coupling can be conceived independently from the medias it relies on. Thus, an a-media approach seems relevant when attempting to define an art of rhetoric in interactive writing.
Kira Guehring - 24.09.2021 - 15:39
