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A Literatura Factorial [l!]
By focusing on hyperfiction, this paper presents some proto-hyperfictions, dealing with literature's combinatorial processes (ars combinatoria), and with its composition based on permutations. This practice, which continues today, although using different techniques and effects, I call factorial literature [l!]. My aim is to introduce the concept of factorial literature as a transtemporal genre that has been intensified in the context of electronic literature. In the analysis of hyperfiction, I return to the definitions of hypertext by Theodor Holm Nelson (1965) and Gérard Genette (1982). Referring back to essays by Italo Calvino (1967) on literature, mathematics and cybernetics, and articles by Robert Coover (1992, 1993) about the new literary practices in digital environments, I prepare the coordinates for a revaluation of hyperfiction's recent history and its software, namely through the transient concept of constant restart, associated with the reader's new role as user.
Patricia Tomaszek - 02.07.2013 - 17:01
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Lineages of German-language Electronic Literature: the Döhl Line
There are numerous essays and reviews on German-language electronic literature, which run from the mid nineties to the present day. Most of these texts, however, are written in German – a language that is no longer accepted and common as an universal language for science.
In order to present the overview of German language electronic literature, we filtered out some historical lines that may explain better how the development of individual genres came about. A good starting point may be the very first experiments of authors with computers to generate electronic poetry, a subject the international community mostly agrees upon.
The following model of historical lines of development is suggested:
Scott Rettberg - 27.10.2013 - 16:48
