Articulate Flesh

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. General Introduction
4. Literature and Multimedia through the Latter Half of the Twentieth- and Early Twenty-First Century 1
5. Part One. Multimedia Productions in Theoretical and Historical Perspective
6. A. Theoretical Explorations
7. Electronic Literature and Modes of Production 27
8. Methodological Rationale for the Taxonomy of the PO.EX Digital and Digital-Network Paradigm 42
9. The Role of Genetic Criticism in the Debates Concerning Literary Creativity 56
10. B. Historical Contextualizations
11. Beckett and Beyond: Ergodic Texts, the Neo-Baroque, and Intermedia Performance as Social Sculpture 63
12. A Forerunner of “Cybridity” 79
13. Articulate Flesh 91
14. Part Two. Regional and Intercultural Projects
15. Picking Up the Pieces 107
16. Postcolonial Co-Ordinary Literature and the Web 2.0/3.0 123
17. Agency through Faith 145
18. New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression 158
19. Russian and Other Eastern European Literatures on Digital Maps 182
20. The Memory of the Holocaust and the New Hyper/Cyber-Textuality 193
21. Part Three. Forms and Genres
22. On Codework 207
23. “Womping” the Metazone of the Festival Dada 221
24. Nonfiction Comics as a Medium of Remembrance and Mourning and as a Cosmopolitan Genre of Social and Political Engagement 232
25. Hybridization of Text and Image 251
26. Communicating Posthuman Bodies in Contemporary Performing Arts 271
27. The Image between Cinema and Performance 290
28. Eastern European Writers’ Online Literary Diaries 301
29. Part Four. Readers and Rewriters in Multimedia Environments
30. Ten Reasons Why I Read Digital Literature 315
31. Authors, Readers, and Convergence Culture 324
32. Author-Reader Interactions in the Age of Hypertextual and Multimedia Communication 331
33. The E-Literary Text as an Instrument and a Ride 340
34. Tablets and the New Materiality of Reading 357
35. De-Scripting through Virtual Typewriters as Reported by Caliban, a Sperker of Ynglish Langbage 368
36. Works Cited 389
37. Contributors 427
38. Index of Names, Titles and Major Topics 437