Grammalepsy - Essays on Digital Language Art

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.>

Product details

• Authors: John Cayley, John (Brown University Cayley
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781501363184
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-6318-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Electronic Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Hardware; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, Philosophy of Language, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Technology: general issues, Digital lifestyle, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / General