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1. Teaching Digital Literature within a “Research and Teaching Partnership” in a Transatlantic Blended Learning Environment

   This paper outlines the practices of teaching digital literature at the University of Siegen in Germany where Peter Gendolla and Joergen Schaefer taught courses on literature in computer-based media for students of both Literary and Media Studies. This paper thus provides an historical synopsis of the didactical transformations the teaching practices have undergone as well as an overview of the University’s profile and its focus on research and teaching literary studies. In 2007, the classroom moved online and held a class transatlantically in cooperation with Roberto Simanowski (Brown University/Providence, RI, USA). The online course approached an experimental Blended Learning concept. The paper introduces the methodological concept of the class “Digital Aesthetics” and discusses using Online Communication Systems in the context of the course of studies: Net Literature.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 27.01.2011 - 16:52

2. Digital Literature and the Modernist Problem

   What is the status of digital literature in contemporary culture? After more than 20 years of production, the audience for digital literature remains small in comparison with the audience for "serious" or popular fiction. Many scholars and practitioners assume that digital literature constitutes a contemporary avant-garde, which does its work of experimentation outside or in opposition to the mainstream. Recent comparisons of digital poetics and early modernist art practices (e.g. by Scott Rettberg and Jessica Pressman) indicate continued interest in this issue. The notion of the avant-garde might seem thoroughly out of date in a consideration of the digital future. Important theorists (e.g. Huyssen, Drucker) have argued that the avant-garde is no longer viable even for traditional media and art practices. On the other hand, the avant-gardes of twentieth-century modernism made claims about the function of art that remain surprisingly influential today, within the art community and within popular culture.

   Maria Engberg - 28.03.2011 - 16:47

3. In Search of Sustainability: Institutional and Curricular Limitations of Teaching Electronic Literature

   In Search of Sustainability: Institutional and Curricular Limitations of Teaching Electronic Literature

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 13.06.2011 - 10:05

4. Writing the Web with RiTa and Javascript

   This workshop presented a hands-on introduction to the RiTa.js toolkit
   It is a toolkit for digital literature designed to work natively
   in web browsers.

   RiTa.js is an easy-to-use natural language library that provides simple
   procedural tools for experimenting with digital literature. The philosophy behind
   the toolkit is to be as simple and intuitive as possible, while still providing
   adequate flexibility for more advanced users. RiTa.js is written in 100%
   JavaScript and runs natively in popular web browsers. It is both free and opensource.

   (Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.06.2012 - 14:32

5. Why ‘But is it e-lit?’ Is a Ridiculous Question: The Case for Online Journals as Organic, Evolving Works of Digital Literature

   Cordite Poetry Review, an Australian journal of poetry and poetics, was founded in 1997 as a print journal but since 2001 has appeared only online. Over the last ten years, as the magazine has grown in size and reach, the question of Cordite’s status as a journal has become more vexed. Can it be regarded as a ‘proper’ literary journal, in the way that other, offline journals are? Is it truly electronic, given the relative absence of works on the site that explore the possibilities of the online space? Or are these merely ridiculous questions, the posing of which reflects a pre-online hierarchy of prestige?

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:37

6. Performing the Digital Archive: Remediation, Emulation, Recreation

   The aim of ‘PO.EX '70-80: A Digital Archive of Portuguese Experimental Literature’ (http://po-ex.net/) is to represent the intermedia and performative textuality of a large corpus of experimental works and practices in an electronic database, including some early instances of digital literature. This paper shows how the performativity of digital archiving and recoding is explored through the remediation, emulation and recreation of works in the PO.EX archive. Preservation, classification and networked distribution are also discussed as editorial and representational problems within the current database aesthetics in knowledge production. (Project reference: PTDC/CLE-LLI/098270/2008).

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:42

7. Literatura digital: una nueva relación entre teoría y práctica experimental

   Literatura digital: una nueva relación entre teoría y práctica experimental

   Luciana Gattass - 23.10.2012 - 12:32

8. From Literary Digital Creative Writing to Digital Literature Teaching in France: A Preliminary Survey

   From Literary Digital Creative Writing to Digital Literature Teaching in France: A Preliminary Survey

   Maria Engberg - 03.03.2013 - 11:08

9. The magnificent 7

   The aim of this paper, titled “The magnificent Seven” as an echo of the homonymous film, is to introduce the works of different authors that have been included in the Electronic Literature Collection (vol. II) and that are not in English. Following the panel that the ELO introduced in Maryland that opened the e-lit works in languages other that English, here the step has moved convincingly forward since 12 authors from countries such as Brazil, Portugal, France, Israel, Belgium, Colombia, Germany, Perú, México, Catalonia and Spain have been introduced in the vastest English corpus. Some of these authors write in English or have had their works translated into English (Tisselli, Berkehenger, Kruglanski, etc.) but this paper, included in a specific panel that deals with e-lit works non written in English, will analyze in an exercise of “close-reading”, this “magnificent seven” works in Romance languages on the collection: Isaías Herrero’s La casa sota el temps and Universo molécula, Doménico Chiappe’s Tierra de extracción, Ton Ferret’s The fuguebook, Chico Marinho et al. Palavrador and Amor de Clarice and Poemas no meio du caminho by Rui Torres.

   Audun Andreassen - 14.03.2013 - 15:46

10. Closer again!

    A semiotic appoach of animated figures in The Dreamlife of letters by Brian Kim Stefans. In many research works of these last years (for example in my book Matières textuelles sur support numérique, 2007), I tried to circumscribe the stylistic features of digital literature. More specifically, I aimed to identify the processes by which “figures of animation” and “figures of manipulation” in e-literature defamiliarize the conventions of digital discourse. In a recent article (“Digital literature - a question of style”, Reading moving letters, ed. Simanowski/Schäfer/Gendolla, 2009), I have already presented a close reading of The Dreamlife of Letters by Brian Kim Stefans; in order to characterize the textual animations in this work, I had recourse to traditional figures of speech (apocope, metathesis, etc.). The result was a large catalogue of figures - a “taxonomic explosion”.

    Audun Andreassen - 10.04.2013 - 11:46

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