Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, and Practices

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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.

Author: Dene Grigar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 08/25/2022
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781501373893

About the Author
Grigar, Dene: - Dene Grigar is an Associate Professor and Director of The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver, USA. With Stuart Moulthrop, she is the recipient of a 2013 NEH Start Up grant for a digital preservation project for early electronic literature that culminated into an open source, multimedia book for scholars entitled Pathfinders, and a book of criticism entitled Traversals. She is President of the Electronic Literature Organization and Associate Editor of Leonardo Reviews. O'Sullivan, James: - James O'Sullivan is Lecturer in Digital Arts and Humanities at University College Cork, Ireland.