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1. Generations of Meaning

   This paper is a comparative reading of two works of generative literature: Scott Rettberg's Frequency Poetry Generator and J.R. Carpenter's Excerpts from the Chronicles of Pookie & JR from a structuralist perspective.
   Viktor Shklovsky described the effect of literature in his 1988 article "Art as Technique", in which he describes the difference between practical and poetic language. The essence of poetic text, according to Shklovsky, is its process of "defamiliarization": The reader will see his/her familiar world in a different light due to poetic rather that practical descriptions. In generative poetry, however, the defamiliarizing effect does not stop there. Not only does one see the world differently, but the way one sees poetry itself is defamiliarized. This defamiliarizing effect does not mean that there are no rules. The formal elements of the text guide the reader, as Culler describes in his article "Literary Competence".
   

   Hannah Ackermans - 26.07.2016 - 09:49

2. Modeling Literature: How Generative Literature Produces Literature Anew

   In this paper, I regard generative literature as a model-object from the perspective of Mahr and Erdbeer’s application of model theory in order to give insight into the functioning of generative literature as well as further specify the new research focus of literary model theory (Erdbeer 2014). Through the modelling practice of literature generators, own preconceptions of what literature is (supposed to be), are projected. In its algorithmic writing, generative literature mimics intention-typical literature while at the same time destabilizing its very foundations. Through multiple short case study analyses, I outline (1) how generative literature self-reflexive in the sense that it is a model of literature, (2) how literary models change due to practices in generative literature and (3) how temporality is modelled in generative literature.

   (Source: Abstract ICDMT 2016)

   Hannah Ackermans - 08.12.2016 - 15:03

3. "Flows Dream / Shapes Hold": Tijdsgebondenheid, Overwriting, en Remixen in Generatieve Dichtkunst

   Generatieve dichtkunst is een genre dat voor velen nog onbekend zal zijn. In dit artikel biedt literatuurwetenschapper Hannah Ackermans een nadere kennismaking met deze vorm van e-poëzie. Via een analyse van de online gedichtengenerator Taroko Gorge van Nick Montfort bespreekt zij hoe drie kenmerkende eigenschappen van generatieve literatuur, namelijk tijdgebondenheid, overwriting en remixen, spelen met het idee van auteurschap. In hoeverre is er nog sprake van een auteur als een algoritme de gedichten creëert?

    

    

   Hannah Ackermans - 27.06.2017 - 09:25