The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature

The digital age has had a profound impact on literary culture, with new technologies opening up opportunities for new forms of literary art from hyperfiction to multi-media poetry and narrative-driven games. Bringing together leading scholars and artists from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is the first authoritative reference handbook to the field.

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book explores the foundational theories of the field, contemporary artistic practices, debates and controversies surrounding such key concepts as canonicity, world systems, narrative and the digital humanities, and historical developments and new media contexts of contemporary electronic literature. Including guides to major publications in the field, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is an essential resource for scholars of contemporary culture in the digital era.

Introduction
Part I: Principles
Actor Networks
Cybercultures
Discourse Networks
Mediations
Materialities
Part II: Practices
Antecedents
Archivology
Code
Games
Hypertext
Paratext
Image/Text/Narrative
Music/Sound/Noise
Remixology
Writing Under Constraint
Part III: Polemics
Canons
Digital Humanities
Interactivity
Narrativity
Objectives, Ontologies
World Systems
Part IV: Periodizations
The Networked Wilderness
The Rise of Print and the Rise of the Nation State
Physiocracy, Steampunk and 19th Century Anticipations of the Digital
Electronic Literature as World Literature
Postmodern, Posthuman and Postdigital
Bibliography
Index

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