Synopsis
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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.
About the Authors
John Cayley is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University, USA. He has practiced as a poet, translator, publisher, and bookdealer, practices which have often intersected with his training in Chinese culture and language. In addition to his internationally recognized writing on networked and programmable media, he has written two printed books of poetic work, Ink Bamboo (1996) and Image Generation (2015).
Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at University of Regensburg, Germany.
María Mencía is an artist/practice-based researcher and Senior Lecturer in the School of Performance and Screen Studies at Kingston University, London, UK. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the ELO-Electronic Literature Organization. Her practice-based research is trans-disciplinary, it explores the poetic space of the in-between in multimodal digital textualities, interactive narratives, poetics of engagement, digital literacies and data visualisation poetics. Most recently, she is the editor of #WomenTechLit, a collection of 28 essays by women working in Electronic Literature.
Rui Torres is Associate Professor of Communication Sciences at University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, teaching Semiotics, Digital Media, and Electronic Literature. He is the director of the academic journal Cibertextualidades, and member of several editorial boards and scientific committees of other Journals in the field of electronic literature. He is, most recently, the editor of Poesia Experimental Portuguesa: Contextos, Ensaios, Entrevistas, Metodologias and PO.EX: Essays from Portugal on Cyberliterature and Intermedia (co-edited with Sandy Baldwin).
Alex Saum-Pascual is Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.
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