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The New River Anthology, A Journal of Digital Art and Literature has been publishing electronic literature continually since 1996, [8] collected in The NEXT Museum. [ 9 ] The NEXT Museum , Library, and Preservation Space at Washington State University at Vancouver is a project dedicated to preserving and sharing electronic literature.
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 .
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 ]
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.
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]
David Bleich is an American literary theorist and academic. He is noted for developing the Bleich "heuristic", a reader-response approach to teaching literature. [1]He is also a proponent of reader-response criticism to literature, advocating subjective interpretations of literary texts.
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