E-Lit
The readings we covered for this week introduced me to a completely new world. I had heard before about electronic literature, but in reality I did not understand much what it was or how it worked. For a moment I thought that it could be referring to those books that you read through an electronic devises such as an iPad or Kindle E-reader. Nonetheless, after reading the articles I can now see how mistaken I was. As a student in a department with a strong emphasis in literature, I was under the impression that literature had to be printed. The article, “Electronic Literautre: what is it? by Katherine Hayles and the book chapter “Genres of Electronic Literature” by Scott Rettberg introduced the world of Electronic Literature. To my amazement, Electronic Literature is not as new as I had originally thought and it has a well-established set of mechanism to back it up as a legitimate form of expression. Both Hayles and Re...