West Virginia University Press is pleased to announce the publication of Regards Crois�s: Perspectives on Digital Literature. This collection of cutting-edge critical essays on literature gone digital is an important addition to existing research on digital literature and will appeal to scholars of electronic writing, digital art, humanities computing, media and communication, and others interested in the field.
Co-edited by West Virginia University Associate Professor of English Sandy Baldwin and University of Paris 8 Assistant Professor of Hypermedia and Multimedia Philippe Bootz, this book offers a significant advance in the field through its wide-angle perspective that globalizes digital literature and diversifies the current critical paradigms.“Regards Crois�s” shows how digital literature connects with traditions and future directions of reading and writing communities all over the world. With contributions by authors from eight countries and three continents, the collection presents points of view on a transcontinental practice of digital literature. It also opens dialogues with expanded critical paradigms of digital literature, beyond earlier critical concern with the aesthetics of the screen as a space of hypertext links. Many of the essays recognize a rich history and ongoing literary practice engaged with the basic fact of the computer as a programmable device. Other essays explore the latest developments in social media and Web 2.0 as venues for digital literature. “Regards Crois�s” shows the vibrant engagement of writers and readers with literary practice in a digital world.
Sandy Baldwin is associate professor of English and director of the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University. As coordinator of the center, he facilitates interdisciplinary research projects in the poetics of new media and the media ecology of literary institutions, using web-technologies, multimedia, hypertext, audio/video, and virtual environments. He publishes on the poetics and philosophy of digital writing and his solo and collaborative creative work is widely published and performed.
Philippe Bootz is assistant professor of Hypermedia and Multimedia at the University of Paris 8. Bootz holds Ph.D.s in physics and sciences of information and communication and is the cofounder of L.A.I.R.E, a French collective in digital literature, and Transitoire Observable, an international collective in programmed poetry.
Contributors Include: Shuen-Shing Lee, Alckmar Luiz dos Santos, Camille Paloque-Berg�s, Eugenio Tisselli, Janez Strehovec, and Alexandra Saemmer, Sandy Baldwin, Philippe Bootz.
December 2010 � 128pp
PB ISBN 978-1-933202-47-1: $19.95
eBook ISBN 978-1-933202-48-8: $19.95
To learn more about this book or to purchase a copy, visit wvupress.com
For more information or to arrange an interview or appearance with the editors, contact Abby Freeland, Marketing Manager of WVU Press, at (304) 293-8400 ext. 33508 or abby.freeland@mail.wvu.edu.
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