Duke Professor N. Katherine Hayles endeavors to illustrate the context of electronic literature, and thereby its true significance. Electronic literature’s context has two aspects: (1) The printed literary tradition that electronic literature derives from, and (2) The new technology enabling the means and nature of electronic literature. The latter affects how literary communities are …
Category Archive: Electronic Text
Feb 01
New Perspectives: The Dawning of Digital Scholarship
What is language? Everything, for people. We are symbolic creatures; forging meaning from phenomena is what differentiates us from algae and badgers. Language is our mode of encapsulating and transmitting that meaning. Researchers are now able to analyze our intellectual products–such as literature, and the ways language is used in various disciplines–because of digital tools, …