Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/93356
Title: Literary thresholds: exploring the edges of ambient literature
Authors: Spencer, Amy
Keywords: ambient literature;electronic literature;Gérard Genette;paratext;digital writing;literatura ambiente;literatura eletrónica;Gérard Genette;paratexto;escrita digital
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: Centro de Literatura Portuguesa
Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra
Abstract: Este artigo analisa o uso de limiares como característica da literatura ambiente para explorar esta forma literária emergente e as suas raízes literárias. O projeto Ambient Literature é um programa de investigação de dois anos, financiado pelo AHRC e coordenado por três universidades no Reino Unido (UWE Bristol, Bath Spa e Birmingham), com o objetivo de investigar o potencial das experiências literárias situadas produzidas por plataformas de computação pervasivas que respondem à presença de um leitor para criar a estória. O projeto encomendou três obras de literatura ambiente a escritores consagrados para compreender a forma, as experiências dos leitores e o processo de autoria. Este artigo trata os pontos de vista da forma, do leitor e do autor. Baseando-se na herança da literatura eletrónica, argumenta que o surgimento da literatura ambiente pode ampliar a compreensão da literatura e da textualidade.
This paper examines the use of thresholds as a feature of ambient literature to explore this emerging literary form and its literary roots. The Ambient Literature project is a two year AHRC funded research programme coordinated by three universities in the UK (UWE Bristol, Bath Spa and Birmingham) to investigate the potential of situated literary experiences delivered by pervasive computing platforms, which respond to the presence of a reader to deliver story. The project has commissioned three works of ambient literature from established writers to understand the form, the experiences of its readers and the process of its authoring. This paper will address the positions of form, reader and author and argue that the emergence of ambient literature can extend the understanding of literature and textuality while drawing on the heritage of electronic literature.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316.2/44349
ISSN: 2182-8830
DOI: 10.14195/2182-8830_6-1_10
Rights: open access
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