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A. Sanz et D. Romera (éd.), Literatures in the digital era. Theory and praxis

A. Sanz et D. Romera (éd.), Literatures in the digital era. Theory and praxis

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Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis

Sous la direction d'Amelia Sanz et Dolores Romero

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Theapplication of technology to information, communication, and culturehas been through the history of humanity a key factor in socialprogress and well being. Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory andPraxis analyses in its twenty chapters the impacts of digitaltechnology for the contemporary culture. The literary system is beingpowerfully affected in three aspects. In the first place, computerresources have been used to preserve and edit literary texts,associating to them graphical material, links with related texts orwith dictionaries, and, above all, developing search tools ofconcordance and syntactic/semantic analysis. Secondly, we are watchingthe birth of a digital literature, with new generic characteristics,new creators, with knowledge of both, technological mechanisms andliterary resources, and a reader capable of interpreting and enjoyingtexts on the screen. Thirdly, literary theory has expressed newpostulates with regard to the multiple authorship of digital texts, thedisintegration of the textual meaning, the intertextuality andimplications of the reader in the creation process and theinterpretation of the texts. These three impacts imply, for someauthors, the search of a new paradigm for the creation, reading, andinterpretation of digital texts, which points to a new humanism.

Theeditors, Amelia Sanz and Dolores Romero are both lecturers atUniversidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Dr. Sanz has developedtheoretical reflections on key concepts of twentieth century criticaltheory, such as intertextuality, systemic approaches, interculturalityand hypertextuality. She is coordinator of the research group“Literaturas Españolas y Europeas del Texto al Hipertexto” (LEETHI) anddirector of the E-learning Programme at the Faculty of Arts of theComplutense University of Madrid. Dolores Romero has published thefollowing books: Orientaciones en Literatura Comparada (1998), Unarelectura del fin de siglo en el marco de la Literatura Comparada(1998), Naciones literarias (2006) and Seis siglos de poesía españolaescrita por mujeres (2006). She is Chair of the Research Committee on“Comparative Literature in the Digital Age” (CLDA) of the InternationalComparative Literature Association (ICLA) and the Vice-president of theInternational Commission on UNESCO-EOLSS “Comparative Literature in theDigital Age”.

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