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This course offers a wide-ranging exploration of ways in which literary reading and writing are being amplified, deterritorialised or hybridised by digital computing and the Internet. We will read a variety of combinatory writing, interactive fiction, as well as literary texts emerging from digital lifeworlds such as those of social media and software, and will examine how digital objects and processes - such as randomness, networks and machine learning - relate to narrative and poetic techniques. Alongside these, the course will consider wider cognitive and cultural implications connected to these shifts, including for literary research.
The course will ask: What is electronic literature, and how does it relate to prior literary forms and genres? How do the technologies driving digital culture create new kinds of reading, writing and research practices? In what ways do the cognitive, cultural and political implications of digital media impact upon literary studies? We will read a range of texts and media, including hypertext fiction, interactive fiction, text games, and hybrid media texts.
By the end of the course students will:Have become familiar with a range of works notable in digital cultureBe able to define electronic literature and explain its significance as a mode of cultural productionUnderstand the key historical and cultural contexts that inform works of electronic literature as well as print literature responding to digital technologiesUnderstand how text is encoded, transmitted and displayed in digital media.
Any 30 points at 200 level from DIGI or ENGL, orany 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
ENGL345
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Christopher Thomson
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Domestic fee $1,788.00
International fee $8,200.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Humanities .