Elektronická literatúra
Electronic literature

Summary of theoretical conceptions of research into electronic literature

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents and critically surveys the main methods involved in electronic literature research. After a general outline, the three most widespread and analysed methods in the discourse of electronic literature are discussed: hypertext theory (intended to look at hypertext as a realisation of postmodern/poststructuralist literary theory), cybertext theory (bridging electronic literature with computer games and some types of online narrative) and technotext theory (stressing the media-specific analysis and contextualisation of materiality). Later on, the paper focuses on three newly-formed studies that perceive electronic literature as part of new media art and stress the underlying computer processes as worthy of analysis: software studies, critical code studies, platform studies. These studies can offer one of the grounds for understanding electronic literature through a postmedial perspective. This introduction to the theoretical concepts of electronic literature research only provides an initial summary, so that the discourse of electronic literature in our cultural region can continue to gradually develop and also follow the trends of research into postdigital literary practice.

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