HISTORY OF FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF DIGITAL LITERATURE

Abstract

The article discusses the content, genesis of a new literary phenomenon – the concept of digital literature and the current state of digital literature in the modern literary process, its main features. This paper analyzes not only the issues related to the history of formation and development of the concept of digital literature, but also the factors that contribute to the spread of both digital literature and traditional literature in the global network. The relevance of this research work is due to the lack of a fundamental study of digital literature in Kazakh literary studies. Only a few articles related to the concept of digital literature are devoted to the study of specific digital genres recognized as digital works. Currently, there is a lack of voluminous academic papers devoted to the problems of digital literature. Despite the fact that digital literature has become the subject of study in many disciplines, such as sociology, literary criticism, folklore, cultural studies, a universal methodological apparatus for studying digital literature, taking into account its features, has not yet been formed. The paper defines the main stages of the process of formation of digital literature associated with the historical change in the functionality of the Internet, the intensive development of devices and programs of information technology. In addition, various approaches to the definition of the concept of “digital literature” are taken as a basis and literary and theoretical analysis of the concept of “digital literature” is carried out. It is concluded that a new creative phenomenon – digital literature, which includes the unique properties of traditional literature and its own characteristics as a new phenomenon in literary studies, should become the object of large-scale scientific research.