Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- Part I: Principles -- Actor Networks -- Cybercultures -- Discourse Networks -- Mediations -- Materialities -- Part II: Practices -- Antecedents -- Archivology -- Code -- Games -- Hypertext -- Paratext -- Image/Text/Narrative -- Music/Sound/Noise -- Remixology -- Writing Under Constraint -- Part III: Polemics -- Canons -- Digital Humanities -- Interactivity -- Narrativity -- Objectives, Ontologies -- World Systems -- Part IV: Periodizations -- The Networked Wilderness -- The Rise of Print and the Rise of the Nation State -- Physiocracy, Steampunk and 19th Century Anticipations of the Digital -- Electronic Literature as World Literature -- Postmodern, Posthuman and Postdigital.
Summary:
"The digital age has had a profound impact on literary culture, with new technologies opening up opportunities for new forms of literary art from hyperfiction to multi-media poetry and narrative-driven games. Bringing together leading scholars and artists from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is the first authoritative reference handbook to the field. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book explores the foundational theories of the field, contemporary artistic practices, debates and controversies surrounding such key concepts as canonicity, world systems, narrative and the digital humanities, and historical developments and new media contexts of contemporary electronic literature. Including guides to major publications in the field, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is an essential resource for scholars of contemporary culture in the digital era."-- Provided by publisher. "Covering foundational theory, new media contexts and digital creative practice and with chapters by leading international scholars, this is the first authoritative reference handbook to the field of electronic literature"-- Provided by publisher.
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