New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression
Crossing borders, crossing genres
Published on 27. November 2014
Book
Hardback
455 pages
978-90-272-3463-6 (ISBN)
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Begun in 2010 as part of the "Histories of Literatures in European Languages" series sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association, the current project on New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression recognizes the global shift toward the visual and the virtual in all areas of textuality: the printed, verbal text is increasingly joined with the visual, often electronic, text. This shift has opened up new domains of human achievement in art and culture. The international roster of 24 contributors to this volume pursue a broad range of issues under four sets of questions that allow a larger conversation to emerge, both inside the volume's sections and between them. The four sections cover, 1) Multimedia Productions in Theoretical and Historical Perspective; 2) Regional and Intercultural Projects; 3) Forms and Genres; and, 4) Readers and Rewriters in Multimedia Environments. The essays included in this volume are examples of the kinds of projects and inquiries that have become possible at the interface between literature and other media, new and old. They emphasize the extent to which hypertextual, multimedia, and virtual reality technologies have enhanced the sociality of reading and writing, enabling more people to interact than ever before. At the same time, however, they warn that, as long as these technologies are used to reinforce old habits of reading/ writing, they will deliver modest results. One of the major tasks pursued by the contributors to this volume is to integrate literature in the global informational environment where it can function as an imaginative partner, teaching its interpretive competencies to other components of the cultural landscape.
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This collection of essays offers an example of the kinds of international projects and inquiries that have become possible at the interface between literature and other media, both new and old. The book shows how hypertextual, multimedia, and virtual reality technologies are involved in this process. The general purpose of the volume is to integrate literature into the global informational environment, starting from the assumption that literature is actually benefitting from that interaction with other media. Thus, innovative literary practices emerge, emphasizing cross-cultural interplay as well as translation. All in all, this is a very interesting book for scholars and other people interested in the new hybrid forms of textuality in our interdisciplinary media-driven world. -- Assumpta Camps, University of Barcelona, in Recherche litteraire/Literary Research Vol. 32 (2016), pp. 108-112More details
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Language
English
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
990 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-3463-6 (9789027234636)
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New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression
Crossing borders, crossing genres
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Content
1. General Introduction; 2. Literature and Multimedia through the Latter Half of the Twentieth- and Early Twenty-First Century (by Cornis-Pope, Marcel); 3. Part One. Multimedia Productions in Theoretical and Historical Perspective; 4. A. Theoretical Explorations; 5. Electronic Literature and Modes of Production: Art in the Era of Digital and Digital-Network Paradigm (by Vukovic, Katarina Peovic); 6. Methodological Rationale for the Taxonomy of the PO.EX Digital and Digital-Network Paradigm (by Torres, Rui); 7. The Role of Genetic Criticism in the Debates Concerning Literary Creativity (by Galindez-Jorge, Veronica); 8. B. Historical Contextualizations; 9. Beckett and Beyond: Ergodic Texts, the Neo-Baroque, and Intermedia Performance as Social Sculpture (by Jirgens, Karl E.); 10. A Forerunner of "Cybridity": The "Tachypanism" of the Italian Futurists (by Piciche, Bernardo); 11. Articulate Flesh: D. H. Lawrence and the Modern Media Ecology (by Wutz, Michael); 12. Part Two. Regional and Intercultural Projects; 13. Picking Up the Pieces: History and Memory in European Digital Literature (by Dijk, Yra van); 14. Postcolonial Co-Ordinary Literature and the Web 2.0/3.0: "Thinking Back" within Transmediatic Knowledge (by Andrade, Pedro de); 15. Agency through Faith: (Re-)Writing Religious and Gender Identities in the Netherlands (by Midden, Eva); 16. New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression: The Case of "Post-Colonial" East-Central Europe (by Cornis-Pope, Marcel); 17. Russian and Other Eastern European Literatures on Digital Maps (by Bozhankova, Reneta Vankova); 18. The Memory of the Holocaust and the New Hyper/Cyber-Textuality (by Dakovic, Nevena); 19. Part Three. Forms and Genres; 20. On Codework: A Phenomenology of an Anti-Genre (by Memmott, Talan); 21. "Womping" the Metazone of the Festival Dada: Jason Nelson's evidence of everything exploding (by Ensslin, Astrid); 22. Nonfiction Comics as a Medium of Remembrance and Mourning and as a Cosmopolitan Genre of Social and Political Engagement (by Flis, Leonora); 23. Hybridization of Text and Image: The Case of Photography (by Suwara, Bogumila); 24. Communicating Posthuman Bodies in Contemporary Performing Arts (by Spassova-Dikova, Joanna); 25. The Image between Cinema and Performance: Transformations and Interactions (by Perez Royo, Victoria); 26. Eastern European Writers' Online Literary Diaries (by Bozhankova, Reneta Vankova); 27. Part Four. Readers and Rewriters in Multimedia Environments; 28. Ten Reasons Why I Read Digital Literature (by Bigelow, Alan); 29. Authors, Readers, and Convergence Culture: Storytelling in the Social Network Era (by Pasquali, Francesca); 30. Author-Reader Interactions in the Age of Hypertextual and Multimedia Communication (by Cornis-Pope, Marcel); 31. The E-Literary Text as an Instrument and a Ride: Novel Forms of Digital Literature and the Expanded Concept of Reading (by Strehovec, Janez); 32. Tablets and the New Materiality of Reading (by Tosca, Susana); 33. De-Scripting through Virtual Typewriters as Reported by Caliban, a Sperker of Ynglish Langbage (by Matuck, Artur); 34. Works Cited; 35. Contributors; 36. Index of Names, Titles and Major Topics