Convergent Devices, Dissonant Genres: Tracking the “Future” of Electronic Literature on the iPad

By Anders Gaard, 25 August, 2016
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Anastasia Salter’s “Convergent Devices, Dissonant Genres” assesses the implications of the iPad for the state of literature. Looking at “traditional” approaches that re-mediate print for digital devices, “enhanced” approaches which add “special features” to extant texts and forms, pre-tablet eliterature re-experienced in the new environment, and finally the creation of original apps with literary qualities, Salter’s work is a critical document of the impact a single interface can have on the development of literary culture in the 21st Century. (Source: Author's Abstract)