livrenum:electronic_literature_-_new_horizons_for_the_literary
- Référence : HAYLES, N. Katherine, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary, Indiana (États-Unis), University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, 192 p.
- Synthèse : Un ouvrage que René a déjà utilisé (voir la section Compte Rendu plus bas), et dont il indiquait vouloir pousser la réflexion plus loin en étudiant les tensions entre littérature conventionnellement entendue et littéraire hypermédiatique, mais aussi en interrogeant l’effacement de la frontière entre littéraire et narratif.
- Mots-clés : Electronic Literature, Literary Theory, Interaction, Narration,
- Langue : Anglais
- Format : Papier
- Description existante : « A visible presence for some two decades, electronic literature has already produced many works that deserve the rigorous scrutiny critics have long practiced with print literature. Only now, however, with Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary by N. Katherine Hayles, do we have the first systematic survey of the field and an analysis of its importance, breadth, and wide-ranging implications for literary study. Hayles's book is designed to help electronic literature move into the classroom. Her systematic survey of the field addresses its major genres, the challenges it poses to traditional literary theory, and the complex and compelling issues at stake. She develops a theoretical framework for understanding how electronic literature both draws on the print tradition and requires new reading and interpretive strategies. Grounding her approach in the evolutionary dynamic between humans and technology, Hayles argues that neither the body nor the machine should be given absolute theoretical priority. Rather, she focuses on the interconnections between embodied writers and users and the intelligent machines that perform electronic texts. Through close readings of important works, Hayles demonstrates that a new mode of narration is emerging that differs significantly from previous models. Key to her argument is the observation that almost all contemporary literature has its genesis as electronic files, so that print becomes a specific mode for electronic text rather than an entirely different medium. Hayles illustrates the implications of this condition with three contemporary novels that bear the mark of the digital. », trouvé sur http://newhorizons.eliterature.org/, le 30 novembre 2016.
- Compte rendu existant : AUDET, René, « N. Katherine Hayles clôt son récent Electronic Literature. New Horizons for the Literary (2008) par cet énoncé prospectif : « More than a mode of material production (although it is that), digitality has become the textual condition of twenty-first-century literature. » Établissant ce caractère numérique (ce « digital born ») comme critère de balisage de son corpus d'étude, Hayles joue de prudence, reconnaissant elle-même l'ambiguïté du discours sur le littéraire à l'ère du virtuel en le voyant précisément comme une « trading zone » de discours, d'expertises et d'attentes. (…) », trouvé sur http://colloque2009.nt2.uqam.ca/content/digital-born-lit-killer-la-litt%C3%A9rature-%C3%A9lectronique-%C3%A0-linterface-du-texte-et-du-livre.html, le 30 novembre 2016.
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