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The Experience of the Unique in Reading Digital Literature
Traditionally in literary criticism, importance has been laid on the uniqueness of the expression (the author says something that nobody else has said before, or, says something in a way that nobody else has done before) and the uniqueness of experience (my reading of a book is always different compared to any other readings). With digital literature we are facing a wholly new situation. Cybertextual literature possesses devices for creating a different textual whole for each reader and reading session. Even though the piece of computer code underlying the work remains the same, the surface level may be different on each and every run. In this situation the reader may truly face a unique text, something that nobody else may ever see.
I will ponder the consequences of this new textual condition, especially from the perspective of personal reception and interpretation. I will also present some examples of this sort of works, and classify certain main categories, such as truly unique vs. pseudo unique text, and text where uniqueness is created through programming alone, and such where (one or several) reader(s) is partly responsible.
Patricia Tomaszek - 12.01.2011 - 20:40
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Toward a Semiotic Critique of Computer Poetry
Toward a Semiotic Critique of Computer Poetry
Patricia Tomaszek - 13.01.2011 - 15:45
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What is and Toward What End Do We Read Digital Literature?
What is and Toward What End Do We Read Digital Literature?
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 31.01.2011 - 11:39
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Reading Digital Literature: Surface, Data, Interaction, and Expressive Processing
Reading Digital Literature: Surface, Data, Interaction, and Expressive Processing
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 10.03.2011 - 13:58
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How to Read Words in Digital Literature
How to Read Words in Digital Literature
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 23.03.2011 - 14:17
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Screening the Page/Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text
Screening the Page/Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 30.05.2011 - 14:33
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Reading Digital Literature: A Subject Between Media and Methods
Simanowksi's overview essay describes the agenda of part one, "Reading Digital Liteature" of the Reading Moving Letters collection: to gather semiotic readings of digital literature that provide future readers of these varied aesthetic forms with sophisticated theoretical and methodological tools for intepretation. While doing so, it provides short glosses of key concerns addressed in the essays from this section. One overarching concern is how to strike the correct critical balance when reading literary works in which natural language is often subsumed by other semiotic flows: how can the critical reader address medial specificity without sacrificing an interest in a work's linguistic properties, which, traditionally, have been at the forefront of literary study? Like much of Simanowksi's critical writing on digital literature, the essay aims to enable scholars and critics to produce meaningful, analytic interpretations of works of digital literature, rather than simply empirical descriptions of their functional interactions.
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.12.2011 - 10:30
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Is There a Text on This Screen? Reading in an Era of Hypertextuality
Is There a Text on This Screen? Reading in an Era of Hypertextuality
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.02.2012 - 11:56
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Post-Chapter Dialogue, Simanowski and Ricardo
Post-Chapter Dialogue, Simanowski and Ricardo
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.06.2012 - 11:33
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Post-Chapter Dialoge, Raley and Ricardo
Post-Chapter Dialoge, Raley and Ricardo
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.06.2012 - 11:38
