Grammalepsy
Essays on Digital Language Art
Author(s)
Cayley, John
Language
EnglishAbstract
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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.
Keywords
Film & Media; Literature, Media and Technology (Lit Studies); Media Theory (Film & Media); Digital Art and Media (Film & Media); Literary StudiesISBN
9781501335785, 9781501363184Publisher
Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher website
http://www.bloomsbury.com/academicPublication date and place
New York, 2018Imprint
Bloomsbury AcademicSeries
Electronic Literature,Classification
Technology: general issues
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000