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Animated Words, Text-Labyrinths, and Multimedia Narrativs:
When Literature meets the Web

by Roberto Simanowski

Since its excursion into the Internet, a word is no longer just a word. In cyberspace it can be animated (i.e., appear and disappear, blink and change color) and engage in new alliances with image, sound and film. Here stories are sometimes non-linear, and their composition and outcomes are often in the hands of the readers themselves. What form does literature take when it consists of these alliances and its structure is so heavily defined and guided by the reader (or user)? What new aesthetic possibilities and temptations does this new multimedia-storytelling bring with it? Can one still speak of it as Literature?

See as an expanded version of the lecture the essay in dichtung-digital: German Digital Literature: A Survey

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