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Stepping Into the River: Experiencing John Cayley's RIVERISLAND

dc.creatorEngberg, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-06T14:15:09Z
dc.date.available2022-01-06T14:15:09Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractIn this paper I investigate the emergence of new writing and reading practices under the impact of digital media. Examining Cayley's poetic work riverIsland , I focus on what the poet himself calls “literal morphing.” These transformations of letters constitute, I argue, an important shift in poetic writing whose importance for literary analysis must be acknowledged. I conclude that poetic works in programmable media lead to a rethinking of concepts of surface and depth in relation to writing. Emerging works of art and literature in networked and programmable media receive increasing attention within new media studies communities and other cognate contexts. However, a fewer number of scholars within more established disciplines, such as in my field, literary studies, are simultaneously pushing to include digital forms of literature into their realm of study. Questions arise, however, of how to study them, what concepts, methods, and theories to employ, and, ultimately, how one should define the necessary skills and training of scholars. I will touch upon some of these important and pressing issues in this paper by reading a digital poetic work, riverIsland, by acclaimed poet and scholar John Cayley.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17688
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/18649
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.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectDigital Poetryen
dc.subjectmedia analysisen
dc.subjectmedialityen
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleStepping Into the River: Experiencing John Cayley's RIVERISLANDen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-01-06T15:21:30
local.source.epage9
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleNr. 35
local.source.spage1
local.source.volume7

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