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13. Encountering Digital Hypertext Fiction: Postmodern Potentialities of a Cyborg Reader

verfasst von : Janhavi Mittal

Erschienen in: Inhabiting Cyberspace in India

Verlag: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

The cyberian turn in the 1990s has unarguably amplified the innovative potential of technology, making it the laboratory of postmodern experimentation. While this permitted an explosion in various mediums of culture, its inventiveness when it came to the field of literature presented a moment to return both to the singularity of literature—a turn to literature’s inventiveness, but also highlighted the singularity of the reader. In this paper, I’ll try to underscore a certain concomitance between the experimentation in form enabled.

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Metadaten
Titel
Encountering Digital Hypertext Fiction: Postmodern Potentialities of a Cyborg Reader
verfasst von
Janhavi Mittal
Copyright-Jahr
2021
Verlag
Springer Singapore
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9934-7_13