Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (4)

UAntwerpen (3)

CaGeWeB (1)

EHC (1)

UCLouvain (1)

UGent (1)

ULiège (1)

UNamur (1)

Vlaams Parlement (1)


Resource type

book (4)


Language

English (2)

Dutch (1)

German (1)


Year
From To Submit

1997 (4)

Listing 1 - 4 of 4
Sort by

Book
Die deutschsprachigen Lyrikanthologien, 1840 bis 1914: Sozialgeschichte der Lyrik des 19. Jahrhunderts
Author:
ISBN: 3447039353 Year: 1997 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz


Book
Veelstemmig akkord : naar een nieuwe literatuurgeschiedenis : verslag studiedag literatuurgeschiedenis, Den Haag, 17 january 1997
Author:
ISBN: 9012085012 9789012085014 Year: 1997 Volume: 52 Publisher: Den Haag: SDU,

Cybertext : perspectives on ergodic literature
Author:
ISBN: 0801855799 0801855780 Year: 1997 Publisher: Baltimore ; London : The Johns Hopkins University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Can computer games be great literature? Do the rapidly evolving and culturally expanding genres of digital literature mean that the narrative mode of discourse-novels, films, television series-is losing its dominant position in our culture? Is it necessary to define a new aesthetics of cyborg textuality?In Cybertext, Espen Aarseth explores the aesthetics and textual dynamics of digital literature and its diverse genres, including hypertext fiction, computer games, computer-generated poetry and prose, and collaborative Internet texts such as MUDs. Instead of insisting on the uniqueness and newness of electronic writing and interactive fiction, however, Aarseth situates these literary forms within the tradition of "ergodic" literature-a term borrowed from physics to describe open, dynamic texts such as the I Ching or Apollinaire's calligrams, with which the reader must perform specific actions to generate a literary sequence.Constructing a theoretical model that describes how new electronic forms build on this tradition, Aarseth bridges the widely assumed divide between paper texts and electronic texts. He then uses the perspective of ergodic aesthetics to reexamine literary theories of narrative, semiotics, and rhetoric and to explore the implications of applying these theories to materials for which they were not intended.

Listing 1 - 4 of 4
Sort by