Electronic Literature in Europe Seminar

50 participants from all over Europe convened in Bergen in September 2008 to discuss electronic literature and show works.

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Letting the slave narrative go

A new literary genre has emerged since the 1960s; the new slave narratives. Unlike the old slave narratives, they are written by black writers.

Shakespeare’s texts were a fashionable bible

Shakespeare’s texts formed moral guidelines in the Victorian era. Text illustrations showed how proper Englishmen should behave, according to Professor Stuart John Sillars.

Better Writing Through Chemistry

The conference ”Literature and Chemistry: Elective Affinities” is the point were the classic arts of writing and alchemy meet in a modern scientific context.

Arabic to the masses

This week’s international Arabic workshop could hardly take place at a more suitable time, given the interest in Islam and the uprisings in the Middle East.

Collaborative Networked Art and Literature at Landmark and UiB

Letters dancing on the walls, computer-interpreted voices represented on the screen, projected haikus created from phrases in today's newspapers - these are just a few of the performances shown at our conference this November.

Ny bok: Lars Sætre, Patrizia Lombardo og Anders M. Gullestad (eds.): Exploring Textual Action

Exploring Textual Action spør korleis vi analyserer litteratur, teater og film etter den performative vendinga, og initierer grunnforsking på performativitet (textual action), topografiar/rom og konvergeringa mellom sjangrar og kunstformer. Einskildartiklane er nærlesingar av ei rekkje kunstverk, media og kultur i historisk og nyare modernitet.

HERA funds UiB-led project on Creativity in Electronic Literature

UiB's Scott Rettberg is to lead a major European project exploring the emerging field of electronic literature as a networked, creative community.

The Posthumous Papers of the Dickens Club

This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens. The University Library owns one of Scandinavia’s finest collections of the author’s works.