Digital Literature and Critical Theory
- Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2023
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The aim at the core of this book is a synthesis of increasingly popular and culturally significant forms of digital literature on the one hand, and established literary and critical theory on the other: reading digital texts through the lens of canonical theory, but also reading this more traditional theory through the lens of digital texts and related media. In a field which has often regarded the digital as apart from traditional literature and theory, this book highlights continuities in order to analyse digital literature as part of a longer literary tradition. Using examples from social media to video games and works particularly by postmodern and poststructuralist theorists, Digital Literature and Critical Theory contextualises digital forms among their analogue precursors and traces ongoing social developments which find expression in these cultural phenomena, including power dynamics between authors and readers, the individual in (post-)modernity, consumerism, and the potential for intersubjective exchange.
Anthropology Biography, Literature and Literary studies IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries Library and information sciences / Museology Literary studies: general Literature: history and criticism Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects Social and cultural anthropology Society and Social Sciences Sociology and anthropology
computer-generated text consumerism cultural studies digital literature interactive narrative media studies postmodernism serial narration theory video games