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	'''Electronic literature''' is "work with an important literary aspect that takes advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer" <ref>Montfort, Nick. 2005. "On Authorship, E-Lit, and Blogs." 'Grand Text Auto', http://grandtextauto.org</ref>. A recent overview of the different genres of electronic literature and providing discussions of many specific works is ]' <ref>N. Katherine Hayles. , 'The Electronic Literature Organization', 2007.</ref>		'''Electronic literature''' is "work with an important literary aspect that takes advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer" <ref>Montfort, Nick. 2005. "On Authorship, E-Lit, and Blogs." 'Grand Text Auto', http://grandtextauto.org</ref>. A recent overview of the different genres of electronic literature and providing discussions of many specific works is ]' <ref>N. Katherine Hayles. , 'The Electronic Literature Organization', 2007.</ref>

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Electronic literature is "work with an important literary aspect that takes advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or networked computer" . A recent overview of the different genres of electronic literature and providing discussions of many specific works is N. Katherine Hayles' Electronic Literature: What Is It?

According to the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO), a non-profit organization that promotes the reading and writing of electronic literatures, there are several forms of electronic literature:

hypertext fiction and hypertext poetry, on and off the Web
Works of fiction published solely or initially on the Web that require its capabilities
Kinetic poetry presented in Flash and using other platforms; digital poetry, e-poetry
Computer art installations which ask viewers to read them or otherwise have literary aspects
Conversational characters, also known as chatterbots
Interactive fiction
Novels that take the form of emails, SMS messages, or blogs
Poems and stories that are generated by computers, either interactively or based on parameters given at the beginning
Collaborative writing projects that allow readers to contribute to the text of a work
Literary performances online that develop new ways of writing

References

Montfort, Nick. 2005. "On Authorship, E-Lit, and Blogs." 'Grand Text Auto', http://grandtextauto.org
N. Katherine Hayles. Electronic Literature: What Is It, 'The Electronic Literature Organization', 2007.

Important Critics and Authors

External links

Electronic Literature Organization
Dreaming Methods - an archive of electronic fiction since 1994
New Media Poetry and Poetics issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac: an overview & anthology published by The MIT Press

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Important Critics and Authors

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