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Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature where digital capabilities such as interactivity, multimodality or algorithmic text generation are used aesthetically. [1] Works of electronic literature are usually intended to be read on digital devices, such as computers , tablets , and mobile phones .
Digital Literature in Research and Teaching: A Handbook. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2010. Giovanna Di Rosario. 2011. OLE Officina di Letteratura Elettronica - Lavori del Convegno, Atelier Multimediale edizioni, Napoli; Markku Eskelinen. 2012. Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory. [28] Hartmut Koenitz et al. 2015.
It was the name of a software company in the mid-1980s, [8] and was used by speculative fiction poetry author Bruce Boston as the title of a book he published in 1992, which contained science-fictional poetry. [9] Cybertext is part of what scholars called generational shifts involving literature on digital media.
Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature characterized by the use of hypertext links that provide a new context for non-linearity in literature and reader interaction. The reader typically chooses links to move from one node of text to the next, and in this fashion arranges a story from a deeper pool of potential stories.
Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for literary analysis. [1] Since the 19th century, literary scholarship includes literary theory and considerations of intellectual history , moral philosophy, social philosophy, and interdisciplinary themes relevant to how people interpret meaning . [ 1 ]
The term "distant reading" is generally attributed to Franco Moretti and his 2000 article, Conjectures on World Literature. [1] In the article, Moretti proposed a mode of reading which included works outside of established literary canons, which he variously termed "the great unread" [2] and, elsewhere, "the Slaughterhouse of Literature". [3]
A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (revised 5th ed., 2012) [10] Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present: An Introduction (2011) [11] Shades of Islam: Poems for a New Century (2010) [4] [5] [12] Modern Literary Criticism and Theory: A History (2008) [13] A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present (2005) [1]
Rettberg is a professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. [1] He is the author of the book Electronic Literature, which won the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature in 2019, [5] described by Kathi Inman Berens as "a definitive overview of electronic literature". [6]