Abstract This article examines the intervening qualities of Peter Verhelst’s novel Zwerm and Jim Andrews’ digital text “Spas Text.” ‘Intervention’ is a relatively new concept which is mainly applicable to digital literature. In this article, intervention is linked to Deleuze & Guattari’s concepts of ‘territorializing’ and ‘deterritorializing.’ Comparing Zwerm to “Spas Text,” a digital text… Continue reading Noortje Kessels | De interventie van cyberpoëtica: Een analyse van Verhelsts roman Zwerm en Andrews’ digitale “Spas Text”
Month: June 2014
Samuel Vriezen | Totale verbinding: Flarf en de mogelijkheid van disruptie in een futloze wereld
Flarf is a recent form of American experimental poetry. It takes collages of Internet search results as a starting point to create texts constructed out of banalities. In its procedures Flarf seems to be an heir of Dada, but it can also be interpreted within a American poetic tradition of democratic representation that starts with… Continue reading Samuel Vriezen | Totale verbinding: Flarf en de mogelijkheid van disruptie in een futloze wereld
Kiene Brillenburg Wurth | Intermediality and Postmediality in Contemporary Cyberpoetry
Abstract In this article Brillenburg Wurth asks whether cyberpoetry is a rediscovery of modernistic experiments, a post- or multi-medial phenomenon. According to Inter mediality, Postmediality in Cyberpoetr y – 51 Brillenburg Wurth, cyberpoetry addresses differences between media, problematises them and does not commit to a single genre. She illustrates this with a specific kind of… Continue reading Kiene Brillenburg Wurth | Intermediality and Postmediality in Contemporary Cyberpoetry
N. Katherine Hayles | Distributed Cognition at/in Work Strickland, Lawson Jaramillo, and Ryan’s slippingglimpse
Abstract Slippingglimpse exemplifies how distributed cognition is being imagined and instantiated in contemporary electronic literature. The structure enacts a threefold recursive cycle between human and non-human cognizers in which the water ‘reads’ the poem text, the videography ‘reads’ the water, and the poem text ‘reads’ image capture technology. The work raises profound questions about the… Continue reading N. Katherine Hayles | Distributed Cognition at/in Work Strickland, Lawson Jaramillo, and Ryan’s slippingglimpse
Imre Szeman | Imagining the Future: Globalization, Postmodernism and Criticism
Abstract This essay examines the implications of globalization for literary criticism by contrasting it with postmodernism, another periodizing term that does similar kinds of conceptual work. Globalization is an anticipatory concept that offers a narrative of the future. Against this, literature and criticism offer imaginative resources for the articulation of alternative futures to those that… Continue reading Imre Szeman | Imagining the Future: Globalization, Postmodernism and Criticism
Peter Verstraten | ‘In the script it is written, and on the screen, it’s pictures’: (Min)achting voor adaptaties
Abstract Insofar as film is considered a storytelling medium, it is often compared unfavourably to literature. A film adaptation of a book is generally bedevilled by the so-called fidelity issue: is the film capable of imitating the ‘original’ tone of the novel? If not, then the film is regarded as a disappointment. This article aims… Continue reading Peter Verstraten | ‘In the script it is written, and on the screen, it’s pictures’: (Min)achting voor adaptaties
Emy Koopman | Adaptatie, remediatie, disneyficatie: de weg van het volkssprookje naar de Disneyfilm
Abstract This essay traces the development of the folktale from its traditional oral form to a Disney commodity. The first part discusses a few general characteristics of folktales from a structuralist point of view. The second part deals with the development of the folktale from oral performance to literary fairytale. Finally the fairytale-films by Walt… Continue reading Emy Koopman | Adaptatie, remediatie, disneyficatie: de weg van het volkssprookje naar de Disneyfilm
Thomas Elsaesser | Cinephilia – Film Studies – Cultural Studies
Abstract In this article I want to look at a double conjuncture around an object of study – the cinema – which has itself only recently been accorded the status of a discipline: film studies. Precisely because of its somewhat ‘performative’ position in the academy compared to literary studies, art history or philosophy, film studies… Continue reading Thomas Elsaesser | Cinephilia – Film Studies – Cultural Studies
Annejan Barelds | Adaptation in Adaptation.. Or the Significance of Failure
Abstract Within the theoretical framework as formulated by Jacques Derrida in Specters of Marx, Spike Jonze’s and Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation. can be interpreted as a generic account of what is happening when a novel is adapted to the screen. The film shows how this process is structured around the fidelity criterion on the one hand… Continue reading Annejan Barelds | Adaptation in Adaptation.. Or the Significance of Failure
Jan Baetens | De strategie van het enjambement; met een case-study over Garbage (1993) van A.R. Ammons
Abstract The enjambment is a crucial rhetoric figure within poetry, yet it is not often object of study in recent literary research. This is partly due to the fact that contemporary poetry, in which classical metre and classical prosody are no longer of significant importance, does not offer a suitable framework for studying the impact… Continue reading Jan Baetens | De strategie van het enjambement; met een case-study over Garbage (1993) van A.R. Ammons