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oapen-20.500.12657-588592022-10-15T03:25:43Z Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities Grigar, Dene O’Sullivan, James Digital literature electronic ontological approach digital humanities technology development e-poetry database cyberfeminist augmented reality bots hypertext bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices is a volume of essays that provides a detailed account of born-digital literature by artists and scholars who have contributed to its birth and evolution. Rather than offering a prescriptive definition of electronic literature, this book takes an ontological approach through descriptive exploration, treating electronic literature from the perspective of the digital humanities (DH)––that is, as an area of scholarship and practice that exists at the juncture between the literary and the algorithmic. The domain of DH is typically segmented into the two seemingly disparate strands of criticism and building, with scholars either studying the synthesis between cultural expression and screens or the use of technology to make artifacts in themselves. This book regards electronic literature as fundamentally DH in that it synthesizes these two constituents. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities provides a context for the development of the field, informed by the forms and practices that have emerged throughout the DH moment, and finally, offers resources for others interested in learning more about electronic literature. 2022-10-14T14:55:05Z 2022-10-14T14:55:05Z 2021 book ONIX_20221014_9781501363481_190 9781501363481 9781501363498 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58859 eng Electronic Literature application/pdf n/a 9781501363481.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781501363474 10.5040/9781501363474 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781501363481 9781501363498 Bloomsbury Academic 392 New York open access
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms & Practices is a volume of essays that provides a detailed account of born-digital literature by artists and scholars who have contributed to its birth and evolution. Rather than offering a prescriptive definition of electronic literature, this book takes an ontological approach through descriptive exploration, treating electronic literature from the perspective of the digital humanities (DH)––that is, as an area of scholarship and practice that exists at the juncture between the literary and the algorithmic. The domain of DH is typically segmented into the two seemingly disparate strands of criticism and building, with scholars either studying the synthesis between cultural expression and screens or the use of technology to make artifacts in themselves. This book regards electronic literature as fundamentally DH in that it synthesizes these two constituents. Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities provides a context for the development of the field, informed by the forms and practices that have emerged throughout the DH moment, and finally, offers resources for others interested in learning more about electronic literature.
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