Towards a Digital Poetics: Electronic Literature and Literary Games

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We live in an age where language and screens continue to collide for creative purposes, giving rise to new forms of digital literatures and literary video games. Towards a Digital Poetics explores this relationship between word and computer, querying what it is that makes contemporary fictions like Dear Esther and All the Delicate Duplicates—both ludic and literary—different from their print-based predecessors. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Digital Culture and the New Modernity (James O’Sullivan)....Pages 1-22 Electronic Literature (James O’Sullivan)....Pages 23-59 Authorship and Reading in the Digital Age (James O’Sullivan)....Pages 61-75 Interactivity and the Illusion of Choice (James O’Sullivan)....Pages 77-93 Digital Materiality and the Politics of the Screen (James O’Sullivan)....Pages 95-114 Towards a Digital Poetics (James O’Sullivan)....Pages 115-127 Back Matter ....Pages 129-146