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Nestas breves páginas proponho uma abordagem panorâmica a uma parte do percurso criativo de Pedro Barbosa que faz dele uma figura incontornável no panorama da ciberliteratura em língua portuguesa. Barbosa tem vindo a dedicar, desde há longa data, uma parte importante do seu trabalho, tanto criativo quanto teórico, à intersecção da literatura com as novas tecnologias, como o comprovam os dois volumes da então designada Literatura Cibernética, publicados nos finais da década de 70.

(Fonte: http://cibertextualidades.ufp.edu.pt/numero-2-2007/ciberdrama-e)

In Camargo, Flávio P. and João B. Cardoso (eds.) Percursos da Narrativa Brasileira Contemporânea. Vol. 2. Goiás: Editora da PUC Goiás, 2011.

This essay presents the points of convergence between the Brazilian fiction writer Clarice Lispector and the Portuguese poet Rui Torres, having, as corpus of analysis, the hypermedia poem “Amor de Clarice” (2005), written by him and based on her tale “Amor”, from the book Laços de Família (1960). In a comparative approach, with a focus on the impact of technology on today's sociocultural background, try to also examine the relation author-work-reader, with the advent of new information technologies and the use of computers as a semiotic machine. Discussions indicate that, in face of Clarice’s writings, the Portuguese poet promotes a rereading that dialogues creatively with the original, expanding its semantic load through audible and visual resources, including animation. Under the influence of the rich literary tradition of the Portuguese Experimental Poetry, "Amor de Clarice" bets on the intercrossing of literary language with media supports in order to break with traditional aesthetic values, suggesting new paradigms for the Luso-Brazilian contemporary literature.

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In this article, we discuss the reception of digital poetry through Mallarmé, Apollinaire, Pound, Cummings and Joyce's productions in order to point out the influence of these poets in the construction of digital poetry. Through the analysis of digital poems we observed some elements of digital literaturity identifying some of its characteristics. Some digital poems provoke the reader to a more interactive relation, others allow readings with less interpretative drifts and there are poems which explore extensively the computer resources, being the reader's posture essential to the construction of meaning, regardless the means of production.

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The essay Leituras de Nós: Ciberespaço e Literatura tries to understand the paths of poetic creation on computers and networks, mapping hypertext, programs and pages that apparently showed poems and literary works in the Internet. The book is accompanied by a CD-ROM publishing a poem to be read in a system of hypertext navigation. (Source: Itáu Cultural. Translation: Álvaro Seiça)

This article has aims on mapping and analyzing aspects of computer science, on how they affect creation, aesthetic reception and operating mode of digital poetry. Specifically, it means to look at the programming language as part of the creation and constitution of the digital literary work, as that which stands behind what is shown to the reader, as a restriction and potentiality of creation, and as a signifier in a construction that has its own materiality as a giver of meaning And finally, it intends on comprehending up to what point the knowledge of these modes and mediums are necessary for both the creation and reception of the digital literary works.

English Reference: TAVARES, O. G. "Considerations regarding the source code of digital poetry". Revista de Letras, São Paulo, v.50, n.2, p. 447-467, jul. /dez. 2010.

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In this essay I intend to study Pedro Barbosa’s Sintext (automatic text generator) and the Portuguese writer E.M. de Melo e Castro’s poems as a hypertextual work, seeking a possible comparison between their literary algorithmic characteristics and a dialectics of interlinked reading between man and machine.

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There are baroque features in contemporary digital poetry. Baroquism is apparent in the mode of operation of digital works and in the way they relate to authors and users. The mode of existence of digital works is similar to baroque works in three respects: in treating materiality as producer of meaning, in their multimediality, and in interactions between work and user. This article offers a description of these baroque features of digital literature.

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In this article I analyze digital re-readings of experimental poems contained in the digital archive
PO-EX: Poesia Experimental Portuguesa - Cadernos e Catálogos [PO-EX: Experimental Portuguese Poetry - Chapbooks and Catalogues]. This project was developed by the Center for the Study of Informatic Text and Cyberliterature (CETIC) at Fernando Pessoa University (Porto, Portugal). I consider how experimental poetics is applied and transformed in the processes of electronic remediation of visual and concrete texts by E. M. de Melo e Castro, Herberto Helder, José-Alberto Marques, Salette Tavares and António Aragão. While digital recreations redefine the source texts by means of specific programming codes, they also reveal the complex linguistic and graphical coding of the printed page.

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The investigation subject of this dissertation is the configuration of erotic verbal lyrism and erotic virtual lyrism based on reflection sonnets by Florbela Espanca (1894 – 1930) and digital verses/poems by Rui Torres (1973). The sonnets were selected from Poemas Florbela Espanca, by Florbela Espanca and organization by Maria Lúcia Dal Farra and the digital verses/poems “Amor-mundo, ou a vida, esse sonho triste” from the electronic address www.telepoesis.net, by Rui Torres. Our purpose is to analyses the lyrism produced by both authors, indicating likeness and differences that the two lyrical forms manifests. The research problem-question was: is there a fusion between erotic verbal lyrism produced by Florbela Espanca and the erotic virtual lyrism produced by Rui Torres ? Or even better, assume that Florbela’s poetry produces a erotic lyrical voice, and the Rui Torre’s poetry, a virtual lyrical voice, we can tell that Torre’s poetry dialogues with the Florbela’s eroticism ? To conduct the investigation were selected the hypothesis: Rui Torres make use of in a virtual way, in his poems, poetics procedures from erotic verbal lyrism florbeliano, developing a dialogue with Florbela Espanca poetry; Rui Torres, in the moment he establish a fusion between his lyrism and Florbela’s, extended the florbeliano lyrism and reveal lyrical potency from the virtual environment. The critic and theorist are based on the specialist studies from the portuguese poet, like Maria Lúcia Dal Farra, erotic and poetic studies by Georges Bataille and Octavio Paz, researches from the literary and digital environment like Lúcia Santaella and Joan Campás. Among conclusions, stand out that sensuality, in both poets, is metaphorically represented, impelling the course from the erotic voice. The poetic speech manifests advocate of the representation and fruition from desire and pleasure.

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