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Digital Literature 2008-1 Topic: Introduction

Digital Literature 2008-1 Topic: Introduction. @Shuen-shing Lee Unless specified otherwise, texts quoted in the lecture are mostly taken from Shuen-shing Lee’s “Explorations of Ergodic Literature” ( dichtung-digital 2002) and Code at Work, Text at Play (Bookman 2004). Definition I.

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Digital Literature 2008-1 Topic: Introduction

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  1. Digital Literature 2008-1Topic:Introduction @Shuen-shing LeeUnless specified otherwise, texts quoted in the lectureare mostly taken from Shuen-shing Lee’s “Explorations of Ergodic Literature” (dichtung-digital 2002) and Code at Work, Text at Play (Bookman 2004).

  2. Definition I • Hypertext (hyper=over, above, beyond; 超文本) • A term coined by Ted Nelson around 1965 for a collection of documents (or "nodes") containing cross-references or "links" which, with the aid of an interactive browser program, allow the reader to move easily from one document to another. –FOLDOC Def.1: a group of texts (nodes) interconnected with links. Ex. Yahoo Def.2: a structure created by nodes (texts) interconnected with links. • Visit Wikipedia for more information

  3. Definition II • Hypertext Literature (超文本文學) • The term refers to literary works that transform hypertextual capacities (e.g., links and nodes, and non-linear structure) into aesthetic forms of expression. • Samples: Pryll, Richard L.  ca 1994.  “Lies.” Weight, Jenny.  1998. “Rice.”Lialina, Olia.  1996.   "My Boyfriend Came Back from the War."

  4. Definition III • Cybertext (ref: cybernetics, cyberspace, cyborg; 制動文本) • Cybertext refers to “any system that contains an information feedback loop.” --Aarseth. Ex. Computer games • For more details, see Aarseth’s Cybertext, Chapter 1 (on line). • Samples: Andrews, Jim.  1997.  "Seattle Drift."  ----.  "Arteroids 2.5.” Baker, Laurie and Jared Tarbell. 2001. "I'Ching Poetry Engine."

  5. Definition IV • The Garden of Forking Paths The title of an incomplete novel, mentioned in passing in Borges’ short story of the same title. The incomplete novel “explore[s] the way time branches into an infinite number of futures” and aims to encompass all the possible paths that might be chosen by the characters. • Other Terms Used: Multi-linear Text Non-linear Text Net Literature Electronic Literature

  6. Literature and Form • Print literature and form • “The literary work is nothing but form.”--Sjklovsky • “The only reality in literature is form; meaning is a shadow-show.”--Valéry • What is literature?Literariness arising from defamiliarization

  7. Literature and Form • Examples春風又綠江南岸Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day . . .五言絕句；平平仄仄平I shall not see the shadows,I shall not feel the rain;I shall not hear the nightingaleSign on, as if in pain:And dreaming through the twilightThat doth not rise nor set,Haply I may remember,And haply may forget. --Christina Rossetti防風林外的 防風林外的 --林享泰*Visual defamilarization: The slow motion of bullets in John Woo’s film, the game Max Payne, and the movie Matrix

  8. Literature and Form • Verbal form, visual form, aural form • Interactive form Examples:Lies 李白問醉月 Clues潑墨山水心在變 名單之謎 arteroids

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