The “Répertoire des écrivaines et écrivains numériques”. Archiving and institutionalization of digital literature
Quoi:
Talk
Quand:
3:45 PM, mardi 14 août 2018
(1 heure 15 minutes)
Où:
Pavillon J.-A. DeSève (DS) UQAM -
DS-1520
Discussion:
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What are we talking about when we say “digital literature” today? If the
early works of electronic literature – hypertext fiction, hypermedia
literature, generative texts – could be identified by the distinguishing
feature of hyperlink or technology in a wider sense, nowadays
Twitterature, literary blogs, and Facebook writings challenge more and
more the possibility to define this kind of literature under a solely
technology-based perspective. The Canada Research Chair on Digital
Textualities' project “Répertoire des écrivaines et écrivains
numériques,” inspired by the CELL project, is an attempt to mind the
existing gap between these new textual objets and literary studies. In
this presentation, we will show and discuss the criteria upon which we
have defined what is a digital literary object and a digital author, the
archiving modalities of those objects, and the epistemological
structure of our project in order to think about the impact of the
digital turn on literary concepts such as author, authorship, literary
work, and genre.