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1. Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres

   While literature in computer-based and networked media has so far been experienced by looking at the computer screen and by using keyboard and mouse, nowadays human-machine interactions are organized by considerably more complex interfaces. Consequently, this book focuses on literary processes in interactive installations, locative narratives and immersive environments, in which active engagement and bodily interaction is required from the reader to perceive the literary text. The contributions from internationally renowned scholars analyze how literary structures, interfaces and genres change, and how transitory aesthetic experiences can be documented, archived and edited.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 17.09.2010 - 17:19

2. Digital Literature in France (conference presentation)

   The presentation briefly retraces the history of electronic literature in France, emphasizing the various literary and aesthetic tendencies and the corresponding structures (groups, magazines, etc.). The focus then shifts to French electronic literature communities. The presentation notably provides an account of a study that Bouchardon did in 2004-2007 for the Centre Pompidou in Paris (study included in the book "Un laboratoire de littératures", http://editionsdelabibliotheque.bpi.fr/livre/?GCOI=84240100044550). He analyzed a "dispositif" (mailing list, website, meetings) called e-critures, dedicated to electronic literature, with the hypothesis of the co-construction of a "dispositif", a field and a community. The presentation concludes with the possible characteristics of electronic literature in France (which might not be specific to France), both from a literary and from a sociological point of view.

   Serge Bouchardon - 22.09.2010 - 07:50

3. Genre, Form, and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Electronic Literature

   “Born Digital: Writing in Digital Media” examines practices of digital literary writing. Through “close reading” of digital works Engberg argues that digital poetry has characteristics that take it beyond the bounds of the poem as a traditional literary artifact. Digital poems offer themselves as “poemevents” that are enacted in ways particular to the digital medium. On the one hand, digital poetry (as well as literary and artistic digital works in general) can be considered in literary and artistic traditions such as concrete poetry, language poetry etc, and thus requires the literary-critical community’s response. On the other hand, it is also increasingly evident that “digital writing” exists in multifarious and emergent forms that require an expanded way of analyzing which is rooted in the individual poetics of the practitioners as well as the cultural and technological situation of networked digital media today. The paper addresses possible critical responses to this dialectic of past and present, avant-garde and popular, influenced in particular by Johanna Drucker’s discussion of complicity (Sweet Dreams, 2005).

   Patricia Tomaszek - 27.10.2010 - 11:53

4. Vers de nouvelles formes en poésie numérique programmée?

   In English:

   I intend to illustrate some programmed forms among the most representative one of the
   digital poetry of today. They use two important features of the digital medium: dual performative
   signs and a semiotic gap between the author and the reader.

   Bootz Philippe. "About some programmed forms in e-poetry". Conference paper. EPC, SUNY Buffalo, 2006.

   In French:

   Cet article réalise une synthèse de mes travaux récents et propose, pour l’analyse des formes programmées, de nouveaux critères complémentaires de ceux proposés par ailleurs. La notion de forme programmée se dégage peu à peu des genres apparus en poésie numérique dans les années quatre-vingts Nous discutons les concepts à l’œuvre dans ces formes en insistant sur ceux de technotexte et d’intermédia. Ayant dégagé des axes analytiques performatif, lectoriel et instrumental, nous proposons et classifions quelques formes programmées.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 28.10.2010 - 16:52

5. Editorial Process and the Idea of Genre in Electronic Literature in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1

   The article focuses on two subjects: the process of editing the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1 (2006), and the idea of genre in electronic literature. The author was one of four editors of the first volume of the Collection, along with N. Katherine Hayles, Nick Montfort, and Stephanie Strickland. The Collection, which will be published on a regular basis, is intended to distribute contemporary electronic literature to a wider audience, and to provide a contextual and bibliographic apparatus to make electronic literature more accessible to audiences and educators. In the past decades, the forms of literary artifacts described as electronic literature have diversified to the extent that it is difficult to continue describe them using traditional terms of literary genre. The essay addresses some of the problems involved in classifying digital artifacts by genre, and suggests some avenues of addressing these epistemological challenges. The essay calls for a contextual understanding of works of electronic literature, based both on their nature as procedural artifacts and on their position within a historical continuum of avant-garde practices.

   Scott Rettberg - 13.01.2011 - 15:49

6. For Thee: A Response to Alice Bell

   In an essay that responds to Alice Bell's book The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Stuart Moulthrop uses the lessons of hypertext as both an analogy and an explanation for why hypertext and its criticism will stay in a "niche" - and why, despite Bell's concern, that's not such a bad thing. As the response of an author to his critic, addressed to "thee," "implicitly dragging her into the niche with me," this review also dramatizes the very productivity of such specialized, nodal encounters.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 03.02.2011 - 11:01

7. Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2011)

   Digital Genres: Digital Art, Electronic Literature, and Computer Games (DIKULT 103, Spring 2011)

   Scott Rettberg - 22.02.2011 - 12:24

8. How to Construct the Genre of Digital Poetry: A User Manual

   Friedrich W. Block looks at the systematic and historical conditions of the emergence of a genre like “digital poetry.” He argues that it has been necessary to communicate and spread schemes of invariance and identification to tie to- gether a high variety of artistic practice. For this purpose, concepts and names of genres have been connected with different forms of institutionalization. From this perspective, his essay considers the conceptual and cultural devel- opment of “digital poetry” as well as its relation to historical filiations and their transformation. In conclusion, his considerations lead to an abstract reflection of a more general concept of “poetry.”

   (Source: Beyond the Screen, introduction by Jörgen Schäfer and Peter Gendolla)

   Scott Rettberg - 24.05.2011 - 12:29

9. Reading, Writing, and Teaching Creative Hypertext: A Genre-Based Pedagogy

   The present essay contributes a genre-based pedagogy, until now only hinted at by hypertext theorists and not imported into the domain of hypertext by genre theorists. While I focus on creative hypertexts—autobiographies and popular genres like soap operas and road trip stories—a genre-based pedagogy can also be used to guide students through the production of informational, academic, community or club Web sites, personal home pages, and whatever blurred or evolving genres students are inspired by and see fit to explore.

   I advance a genre-based pedagogy for teaching the reading and writing of creative hypertext to enable teachers of hypertext to start from what they know and to provide them and their students with concrete terms and models. Such a pedagogy, especially if informed by recent scholarship on genre's flexible and rhetorical nature, requires students to make various choices not only about form but about compositional concerns: tone, diction, prose style, character development, plot, setting, visual design, and hypertext navigation strategies. (Source: from actual paper)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 12:22

10. Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre

    Overview of dozens of examples of what the authors call "Web 2.0 Storytelling" - narratives told on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 13:48

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