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Grammalepsy: Essays on Digital Language Art (Electronic Literature)

Grammalepsy: Essays on Digital Language Art (Electronic Literature)

by JohnCayley (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

    $179.77
Synopsis

Collecting and recontextualizing writings from the last twenty years of John Cayley's research-based practice of electronic literature, Grammalepsy introduces a theory of aesthetic linguistic practice developed specifically for the making and critical appreciation of language art in digital media. As he examines the cultural shift away from traditional print literature and the changes in our culture of reading, Cayley coins the term grammalepsy to inform those processes by which we make, understand, and appreciate language. Framing his previous writings within the overall context of this theory, Cayley eschews the tendency of literary critics and writers to reduce aesthetic linguistic making-even when it has multimedia affordances-to writing. Instead, Cayley argues that electronic literature and digital language art allow aesthetic language makers to embrace a compositional practice inextricably involved with digital media, which cannot be reduced to print-dependent textuality.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Published: 20 Sep 2018
ISBN 10: 1501335766
ISBN 13: 9781501335761
Book Overview: Grammalepsy collects, reconfigures, and recontextualizes 20 years of formative writing from John Cayley, a pioneering practitioner, publisher, and researcher of digital literature.

Media Reviews
John Cayley has been a respected figure in digital language art since his first works appeared in the 1970s. For decades, his distinctive creative approach has combined with careful, critical, erudition to continually chart new directions in the field of emerging literary practices. This collection of essays, many of which are now canonical references, tracks twenty years of Cayley's thinking about poetics, code, and composition. As for this radical new concept-grammalepsy-- as a way to understand how language is grasped and read -it will no doubt have a long-term ripple effect through the multiple domains of linguistic discourse. * Johanna Drucker, Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies, UCLA, USA *
John Cayley has already had a deep and lasting influence on the fields of new media studies, electronic literature, conceptual writing, and poetics - and this long-awaited volume elegantly frames his most important critical essays as well as his artistic practice. No one has done more to theorize, and translate, the philosophical and aesthetic complexity of digital language art, and this volume will endure as the definitive compilation of Cayley's work. * Rita Raley, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA *
Author Bio
John Cayley is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University, USA. He has practiced as a poet, translator, publisher, and bookdealer, practices which have often intersected with his training in Chinese culture and language. In addition to his internationally recognized writing on networked and programmable media, he has written two printed books of poetic work, Ink Bamboo (1996) and Image Generation (2015).