Fenomenul digital: literatura între criză și conceptualizare
The digital phenomenon: literature between crisis and conceptualization

Summary/Abstract: Innovation in the field of literature has made us feel the need to renew the instruments in the domain of literary criticism and theory. The difficulty has already appeared at the stage of defining the new concept of literature, the overcoming of which could be a suitable ground for the theorizing of the digital literary phenomenon. In this article we propose to present a series of definitions of the traditional concept of literature issued by theorists such as R. Wellek, A. Warrenn, T. Eagleton, J. Culler, A. Marino, Gh. Crăciun, in order to access the definition contemporary concept of digital literature, presented by E. Aarseth, I. Berszán, Ph. D. Bootz, R. and C. Ghiță, L. Malomfălean, M. Ursa and A. Vuillemin. The traditional definitions create the background on which the theorizing of digital literature, of the ergodic text manifested in the literary space in the last decades. The approached historical perspective facilitates the establishment of a path of evolution of the concept of literature and the adequate definition of the new literary forms. Based on the traditional definitions, one of the digital, cybernetic literature is outlined, which introduces new types of texts: hypertext, intertext, cybertext and ergodic text - as an integrative term for them. In the age of digitalism, literature does not resign, and the crisis proves to be a pretext for the manifestation of the new literature.

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