Norwegian (Bokmål)

In the last decades a new type of literary text has appeared, written for screen and not paper. Aside from written words the text uses modalities such as pictures, verbal language, sound, music and movement, and they involve the reader and perhaps also the computer in text creation through organizing principles such as hypertext and cybertext. This book presents an overview of digital literature with special focus on Scandinavian examples, and discusses how digital literature gives a picture of our time, and challenges our concept of literature. Some questions in the book: * What happens when literary text must be read on a screen? * Can literature generated by a computer be art? * How can social media influence literature? This book is relevant for all who work with, or study, literature and transmission of literture, for example students and teachers in various literature and media subjects.

An introduction to electronic literature for a general literary audience, discussing works in the Electronic Literature Collection, volume 1, and works presented at the 2008 Electronic Literature in Europe conference, held in Bergen.

The article addresses several works of electronic literature which take as their basis print works from other periods: Shelley Jackson's remix of the Frankenstein story in Patchwork Girl, Barry Smylie's new media version of Homer's Iliad, and Chris Ault's play with Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry in "Hot Air".

A review of Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell's TOC: A New Media Novel.

A discussion of Jason Nelson's work and absurdist aesthetic.

A discussion of the Poetry Beyond Text project, which examined reading of concrete and digital poetry from a cognitive perspective, and a 2011 exhibition in Dundee, Scotland associated with the project, which included works by John Cayley and Simon Biggs.

A discussion of electronic literature, for children and adults, made for the iPad.

Platform 2 is a series of articles by Scott Rettberg in the quarterly Norwegian literary magazine Vagant, consisting of eight pieces focused on electronic literature, published in 2010 and 2011.

The articles were written in English, then translated and published in Vagant in Norwegian. Full text versions of the articles in English have been made available by the author on the ELMCIP Knowledge Base.

Note that the English versions are not direct word-for-word translations of the version published in Norwegian. Because of space constraints in the regular two magazine spread column, the translation was often an abridged version of English originals, which are made available for the first time here on the ELMCIP Knowledge Base.

The final column in the "Platform 2" series, offering a survey of important monographs about electronic liiterature.