Towards a Digital Poetics
Electronic Literature & Literary Games
Authors: O'Sullivan, James
Free Preview- Examines digital forms on their own terms rather than returning instinctively to well-worn analogue perspectives
- Looks at the woefully underexamined subject of electronic literature
- Takes an ontological approach through descriptive exploration rather than offering a prescriptive definition of electronic literature
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- About this book
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We live in an age where language and screens continue to collide for creative purposes, giving rise to new forms of digital literatures and literary video games. Towards a Digital Poetics explores this relationship between word and computer, querying what it is that makes contemporary fictions like Dear Esther and All the Delicate Duplicates—both ludic and literary—different from their print-based predecessors.
- About the authors
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James O’Sullivan lectures at University College Cork (National University of Ireland). He has previously held faculty positions at the University of Sheffield and Pennsylvania State University. His research has been published in a variety of interdisciplinary journals and collections, including Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Literary Studies in a Digital Age, and the Electronic Book Review. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Courting Katie (2017), and the Founding Editor of New Binary Press.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Digital Culture and the New Modernity
Pages 1-22
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Electronic Literature
Pages 23-59
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Authorship and Reading in the Digital Age
Pages 61-75
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Interactivity and the Illusion of Choice
Pages 77-93
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Digital Materiality and the Politics of the Screen
Pages 95-114
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Towards a Digital Poetics
- Book Subtitle
- Electronic Literature & Literary Games
- Authors
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- James O'Sullivan
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-11310-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-11310-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-11309-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 146
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
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