Grammalepsy Essays on Digital Language Art

• Autore principale: Cayley, John (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: New York Bloomsbury Academic 2018
• Serie: Electronic Literature
• Soggetti: Technology: general issues; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Film & Media; Literature, Media and Technology (Lit Studies); Media Theory (Film & Media); Digital Art and Media (Film & Media); Literary Studies
• Accesso online: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Riassunto

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Collecting and recontextualizing writings from the last twenty years of John Cayley's research-based practice of electronic literature, Grammalepsy introduces a theory of aesthetic linguistic practice developed specifically for the making and critical appreciation of language art in digital media. As he examines the cultural shift away from traditional print literature and the changes in our culture of reading, Cayley coins the term "grammalepsy" to inform those processes by which we make, understand, and appreciate language. Framing his previous writings within the overall context of this theory, Cayley eschews the tendency of literary critics and writers to reduce aesthetic linguistic making-even when it has multimedia affordances-to "writing." Instead, Cayley argues that electronic literature and digital language art allow aesthetic language makers to embrace a compositional practice inextricably involved with digital media, which cannot be reduced to print-dependent textuality.

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (312 p.)

ISBN

9781501335792
9781501335785
9781501363184

Accesso

Open Access