The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature

Joseph Tabbi

Bloomsbury Academic, Nov 28, 2019 - Literary Criticism - 464 pages

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2018
Winner of the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature 2018

The digital age has had a profound impact on literary culture, with new technologies opening up opportunities for new forms of literary art from hyperfiction to multi-media poetry and narrative-driven games. Bringing together leading scholars and artists from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is the most authoritative available handbook to the field.

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book explores the foundational theories of the field, contemporary artistic practices, debates and controversies surrounding such key concepts as canonicity, world systems, narrative and the digital humanities, and historical developments and new media contexts of contemporary electronic literature. Including guides to major publications in the field, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is an essential resource for students of contemporary culture in the digital era.

About the author

Joseph Tabbi is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is Editor of the Electronic Book Review, a former President of the Electronic Literature Organization and his previous publications include Postmodern Sublime (1995), Cognitive Fictions (2002) and Nobody Grew But the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis (2015).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature; Bloomsbury Handbooks
• Editor: Joseph Tabbi
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
• ISBN: 1350126756, 9781350126756
• Length: 464 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Design, Graphics & Media / General; Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature; Literary Criticism / Reference