Opera aperta; Italian Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present

ISBN-13: 9781789978599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 308 str.

Robert S. C. Gordon; Pierpaolo Antonello; Emanuela Patti

Opis

This book reconstructs the history of Italian electronic literature, looking at creative practices across literature, electronic and digital media from the early days of computers to the social media age. Topics include criticism of mass media, globalisation, information society and late capitalism as well as the enhancement of language itself.

Spis treści

Contents: Open textuality from the Neoavanguardia to digital convergence - Opera aperta and the Italian Neoavanguardia - Italian electronic literature: The modernist poetics of «open works» - Ideological debates and the critical function of electronic literature - Digital storytelling from experimental writing to popular culture - The Italian «digital avant-garde»: From mainframes to the Internet - The digital revolution in Italy - Generative literature: Nanni Balestrini's Tape Mark 1 (1961), Tristano (1966 and 2007), and Epreuves d'écriture (1985) - Video poetry: Gianni Toti's poetronica (1980-1994) - Hypertext and interactive fiction: Italo Calvino and Enrico Colombini's Avventura nel castello (1982) - Net poetry: Caterina Davinio from Karenina.it (1998) to GATES (2005) - The social media age - Digital convergence in Italy and the transformation of the Italian literary industry - Network criticism: Lit-blogs (2006-2019) - Reality blooks: Michela Murgia's Il mondo deve sapere (2006) and Francesco Pecoraro's Questa e altre preistorie (2008) - Collective distributed narratives: The Wu Ming Foundation (2006-2013) - Wiki novels: SIC's In territorio nemico (2013) - The social network novel: Tommaso Pincio's Panorama (2015) and Fabio Viola's I dirimpettai (2015) - Twitterature and Facebookature - Post-digital experimentation: Creative coding and digital poetry - Interactive e-books: Enrico Colombini and Fabrizio Venerandi's Polistorie - Contemporary digital poetry.

O autorze

Emanuela Patti is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests range across a variety of areas, including Italian literature and culture, media and cultural studies, digital cultures and digital humanities. She was part of the AHRC-funded collaborative project Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: interart/intermedia, which supported the publication of this book. She is the author of Pasolini After Dante: the «Divine Mimesis» and the Politics of Representation (2016) and editor of a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Critical Studies titled Experimental Narratives: From the Novel to Digital Storytelling (2016), among other publications.