Review: Toward a Digital Poetics: Electronic Literature &amp; Literary Games by Jane O'Sullivan (2019)

Nicola Presley

doi:10.16995/c21.3376

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Review: Toward a Digital Poetics: Electronic Literature & Literary Games by Jane O'Sullivan (2019)

Highlights

O’Sullivan sets up Chapter One, ‘Digital Culture and the New Modernity’ with a consideration of T S Eliot’s ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ and Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence
James O’Sullivan’s Towards a Digital Poetics: Electronic Literature and Literary Games is a welcome addition to scholarship on electronic literature
The book’s structure is helpful, with six short chapters, further divided into sections. This is not an introduction to electronic literature, but is instead, as O’Sullivan writes: ‘a reflection on a form that is increasingly prevalent in the artistic world, a form that operates at the juncture between the literary, the ludic, and the sensory’ (xv)

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Introduction

O’Sullivan sets up Chapter One, ‘Digital Culture and the New Modernity’ with a consideration of T S Eliot’s ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ and Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence. “Book Review: Towards a Digital Poetics: Electronic Literature and Literary Games by James O’Sullivan (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). James O’Sullivan’s Towards a Digital Poetics: Electronic Literature and Literary Games is a welcome addition to scholarship on electronic literature.

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