Grammalepsy Essays on Digital Language Art
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Bloomsbury Academic
2018
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| Series: | Electronic Literature
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| Collection: | OAPEN - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 |
| Physical Description: | 312 p. |
| ISBN: | 9781501363184 9781501335785 9781501335792 |