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1. Electronic Literature

   Electronic Literature considers new forms and genres of writing that exploit the capabilities of computers and networks – literature that would not be possible without the contemporary digital context.

   In this book, Rettberg places the most significant genres of electronic literature in historical, technological, and cultural contexts. These include hypertext fiction, combinatory poetics, interactive fiction (and other game-based digital literary work), kinetic and interactive poetry, and networked writing based on our collective experience of the Internet. He argues that electronic literature demands to be read both through the lens of experimental literary practices dating back to the early twentieth century and through the specificities of the technology and software used to produce the work. 

   Scott Rettberg - 01.05.2018 - 20:06

2. Redefining Electronic Literature

   Scott Rettberg presents his forthcoming monograph Electronic Literature (Polity, 2018), Joseph Tabbi introduces the collection The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature (Bloomsbury, 2018). Eric Rasmussen moderates a discussion of the two books and the field of electronic literature. Part of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base symposium at the University of Bergen, April 27, 2018.

   Scott Rettberg - 01.05.2018 - 20:37

3. Towards the study of the literary phenomenon in digital media

   Literature created in digital media exists in a realm whose borders may be changing, malleable, or nonexistent. In this realm, where anything may happen, traditional theories are insufficient to understand the literary phenomenon in non-print platforms. Electronic literature demands an analysis that matches its nature, which does not necessarily coincide with existing theory, since electronic literature exists to be consumed through technologies which have been available just recently and which, by transforming the ways we read and write, challenge the canon of literary form, and establishing a new paradigm for text creation and reading. According to Roger Chartier, “The electronic text revolution is at once a revolution in the technology of the production and reproduction of texts, a revolution in the medium of writing and a revolution in reading practices.” (“Readers and readings in the Electronic Age”) as a corollary, this revolution implies also a new way of approaching the literary phenomenon from a critical perspective.

   Linn Heidi Stokkedal - 29.08.2018 - 15:13