Po hipertekstni fikciji : remediirana in konceptualna besedila in zgodbe

slovenian

2017

volume 40, issue 1

conceptuality   digital textuality   e-literature   hypertext   literature and media   social networks

Slovensko društvo za primerjalno književnost
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

Hypertext fiction, the most talked about practice of writing in new media in the 1990s, has given way to a new generation of digital, text-based installations with literary functions. They are viewed as conceptual projects that explore the very specificity of the word and letter entering new media conditions. In addition to post-hypertextual, mostly conceptual electronic literature, this article aims to explore the crucial features of new media shaped textuality and new ways of storytelling that it enables. A formidable challenge for contemporary social linguistic and narratological studies are recent social media that deploy textual means shaped by new media( formed as a hybrid field of verbal and visual signifiers, with smileys and emojis), which form the basis for new storytelling in Twitter novels, mobile apps, and blogging. The achievements of the twentieth-century artistic and literary avant-garde enter recent social media and provoke a blurring of textual and verbal boundaries. The cards in both fields are shuffled anew. This article provides two close readings of recent texts (Bigellow's How to Rob a Bank and the author's Drone poem) that call into question both the narrative-as-we-know-it and the poetic function in terms of the audience's literary interaction.

12.07.2018