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Principles and Processes of Generative Literature: Questions to Literature

Author(s): Balpe, Jean-Pierre

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Generative literature, defined as the production of continuously changing literary texts by means of a specific dictionary, some set of rules and the use of algorithms, is a very specific form of digital literature which is completely changing most of the concepts of classical literature. Texts being produced by a computer and not written by an author, require indeed a very special way of engrammation and, in consequence, also point to a specific way of reading particularly concerning all the aspects of the literary time. In my paper, I will try to present some of the characteristics of generative texts and their consequences for the conception of literature itself. I call "engrammation" the adaptation of expression wills to the technical constraints of the medium used for its mediatisation. For instance, a book needs a fixed writing, and the mediatisation by means of a screen needs other modalities of presentation.

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Balpe, Jean-Pierre: Principles and Processes of Generative Literature: Questions to Literature. In: Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien, Jg. 7 (2005), Nr. 1, S. 1-8. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17664.
@ARTICLE{Balpe2005,
 author = {Balpe, Jean-Pierre},
 title = {Principles and Processes of Generative Literature: Questions to Literature},
 year = 2005,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/17664}",
 volume = 7,
 address = {Providence},
 journal = {Dichtung Digital. Journal für Kunst und Kultur digitaler Medien},
 number = 1,
 pages = {1--8},
}
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