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Figures in the Interface: Comparative Methods in the Study of Digital Literature

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dc.creatorZuern, John
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-07T09:19:35Z
dc.date.available2022-01-07T09:19:35Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThis paper, which is part of the collection of essays Reading Moving Letters (see introduction) reflects on what the emerging field of digital literature studies and the more established (but continually evolving) discipline of comparative literature might contribute to one another in terms of defining concepts and methods of literary analysis. My discussion is guided by the tentative proposition that the vexed status of the "national language" for comparative literature can be seen as analogous to the status of the "digital" for scholars undertaking research on computer-based literary texts. Aiming to overcome the ideological strictures of nationalism, many present-day comparatists are returning to the old question "what is literature?" and are placing renewed emphasis on the role of figurative language as a defining feature of literary texts and, consequently, as the appropriate focus of comparative textual analysis. Should scholarship in electronic literature head in a similar direction and cultivate skepticism about the essentialism of the digital, opening up greater possibilities for comparative work across literary media? In support of an affirmative answer to this question, the essay undertakes a detailed comparative analysis of Rainer Maria Rilke's poem "Herbst" ("Autumn") and American artist Rudy Lemcke's digital video poem "The Uninvited."en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17725
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/18690
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherRoberto Simanowski
dc.publisher.placeProvidence
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1617-6901
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectdigital literatureen
dc.subjectliterary studiesen
dc.subjectComparative Literatureen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.personRainer Maria Rilke
dc.subject.personRudy Lemcke
dc.titleFigures in the Interface: Comparative Methods in the Study of Digital Literatureen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2022-01-07T10:28:11
local.source.epage22
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleNr. 39
local.source.spage1
local.source.volume11
local.subject.gndhttps://d-nb.info/gnd/118601024
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76483

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