Welcome to Three Generations of Electronic Literature!
This course offers an introduction to literature that engages the expressive potential of electronic and digital media. The course will be structured through a historical framework that proposes three generations of electronic literature: the first from 1951 to 1995, the second from the launching of the Web in 1995 to the present, and a third that arises circa 2005 with the rise of social media networks and app-based platforms. Through this generational focus, the course will explore the main electronic literature genres and the artistic and literary movements they arise from and respond to. Finally, the course will explore a model of stages of social adoption of electronic literature: approach, discovery, experimentation, and adoption.