The aesthetics of net literature : writing, reading and playing in the programmable media / Peter Gendolla, Jörgen Schäfer (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gendolla, Peter.

Schäfer, Jörgen, 1967-

Series:

Medienumbrüche ; 16.

Medienumbrüche ; v. 16 = Media upheavals ; v. 16.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and the Internet--Congresses.

Literature and the Internet.

Literature and technology--Congresses.

Literature and technology.

Communication and technology--Congresses.

Communication and technology.

Interactive multimedia--Congresses.

Interactive multimedia.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

388 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Writing, reading and playing in the programmable media

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript ; Piscataway, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2007]

Summary:

During recent years, literary texts in electronic and networked media have been a focal point of literary scholarship, using varying terminology. In this book, the contributions of internationally renowned scholars and authors from Germany, USA, France, Finland, Spain and Switzerland review the ruptures and upheavals of literary communication within this context. The articles in the book focus on questions such as: In which literary projects can we discover a new quality of literariness? What are the terminological and methodological means to examine these literatures? How can we productively link the logics of the play of literary texts and their reception in the reading process? What is the relationship of literary writing and programming? With contributions by Jean-Pierre Balpe, Susanne Berkenheger, Friedrich W. Block, Philippe Bootz, Laura Borras Castanyer, Markku Eskelinen, Frank Furtwangler, Peter Gendolla, Loss Pequeno Glazier, Fotis Jannidis, Thomas Kamphusmann, Mela Kocher, Marie-Laure Ryan, Jorgen Schafer, Roberto Simanowski and Noah Wardrip-Fruin.

Contents:

Approaches and Terminologies

Playing With Signs: Towards an Aesthetic Theory of Net Literature / Peter Gendolla, Jorgen Schafer 17

Holopoetry, Biopoetry and Digital Literature: Close Reading and Terminological Debates / Roberto Simanowski 43

Human Practice: How the Problem of Ergodicity Demands a Reactivation of Anthropological Perspectives in Game Studies / Frank Furtwangler 67

The Problem of Form: Transitoire Observable, a Laboratory for Emergent Programmed Art / Philippe Bootz 89

Typologies, Histories, and Case Studies

The Ludoliterary Circle: Analysis and Typology of Digital Games / Mela Kocher 107

Gutenberg Galaxy Revis(it)ed: A Brief History of Combinatory, Hypertextual and Collaborative Literature from the Baroque Period to the Present / Jorgen Schafer 121

Humor - Technology - Gender: Digital Language Art and Diabolic Poetics (2004) / Friedrich W. Block 161

Playable Literature

Six Problems in Search of a Solution: The Challenge of Cybertext Theory and Ludology to Literary Theory / Markku Eskelinen 179

Playable Media and Textual Instruments / Noah Wardrip-Fruin 211

Stories and Games

Narrative and the Split Condition of Digital Textuality / Marie-Laure Ryan 257

Event-Sequences, Plots and Narration in Computer Games / Fotis Jannidis 281

Writing and Programming

Principles and Processes of Generative Literature: Questions to Literature / Jean-Pierre Balpe 309

Code, Cod, Ode: Poetic Language & Programming or Pequeno Lector/Klein Leser: Es gibt (See)lachsfilet? / Loss Pequeno Glazier 319

Practical Examples

E-Learning and Literary Studies: Towards a New Culture of Teaching? / Laura Borras Castanyer 333

I'm dying, honey: dramatized proceedings from super-space (2004) / Susanne Berkenheger 355

Another ABC: A Model for "Augmented Business Communication" / Thomas Kamphusmann 367.

Notes:

Based on the conference "NetzLiteratur : Umbrüche in der literarischen Kommunikation = Net literature : upheavals in literary communication", held 25-27 November 2004 at Siegen University.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783899424935

389942493X

OCLC:

123177726