To nye bøker om elektronisk litteratur

Two new books: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature(Bloomsbury, 2018) edited by Joseph Tabbi, and Electronic Literatureby Scott Rettberg (Polity, 2018) that promise to redefine the research scholarship and pedagogy of electronic literature will be presented and discussed in a debate moderated by Eric Rasmussen.

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 ElectronicLiterature 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 Literatureis an essential resource for scholars of contemporary culture in the digital era.

Electronic Literature considers new forms and genres of writing that exploit the capabilities of computers and networks literature that would not be possible without the contemporary digital context.

In this book, Rettberg places the most significant genres of electronic literature in historical, technological, and cultural contexts. These include hypertext fiction, combinatory poetics, interactive fiction (and other game-based digital literary work), kinetic and interactive poetry, and networked writing based on our collective experience of the Internet. He argues that electronic literature demands to be read both through the lens of experimental literary practices dating back to the early twentieth century and through the specificities of the technology and software used to produce the work.

Considering electronic literature as a subject in totality, this book provides a vital introduction to a dynamic field that both reacts to avant-garde literary and art traditions and generates new forms of narrative and poetic work particular to the twenty-first century.

Joseph Tabbi is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Tabbi is the author or editor of eight books about contemporary literature in print and electronic environments, and the publisher of the online journal electronic book review. Most recently, he published the Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature (Bloomsbury 2018).

Scott Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture in the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. Rettberg was the co-founder of the Electronic Literature Organization and the project leader of ELMCIP. Rettberg is the author or coauthor of numerous novel-length works of digital narrative and poetry projects including most recently Hearts and Minds: The Interrogations Project—winner of the 2016 Robert Coover award for a work of electronic literature.