Letteratura e mondo digitale

Laura Di Michele

doi:10.13125/2039-6597/1803

Laura Di Michele University of Naples, L'Orientale

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/1803

Keywords: Electronic/digital literature, Humanities, Visual Culture, Remediation, Mediamorphosis,

Abstract

This essay discusses literature’s persistent diffidence against electronic productions, wrongly perceived as on the verge of erasing the print world of the literary. At the same time, the essay shows how deep the digital world’s fascination over a literary mind may be, and in how many ways the ‘established’ field of human knowledge may be significantly enriched by opening paths of communications where no boundaries are constructed, so that the free circulation among all of them is made possible without endangering the identity of the electronic and literary worlds. Rather, the perspectives belonging to these two worlds may give major contributions not only to the creation and study of electronic /new media literature, but also to the exploration and understanding of the full implications of what the transition/transformation/translation from page to screen may signify. The complexities of the processes involved are illustrated through the analyses of theories and critical thinking, as well as the study of written and visual materials.

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Author Biography

Laura Di Michele, University of Naples, L'Orientale

Laura Di Michele taught English at the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ and at the University of L’Aquila. She is the author of books and articles on Shakespeare, the novel and poetry of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the city and its representations, multicultural diversity, cultural and gender studies. Among her recent publications: “Matrimonio e divorzio nella narrativa vittoriana” (2012), “L’assedio delle passioni nell’universo tragico di Shakespeare” (2013), “Smart cities tra fantascienza e realtà urbana” (2013), “Performance and the City: Constructing urban identities in contemporary London” (2014), and “Dieci anni di narrativa inglese nel terzo millennio” (2014). She is editor and co-editor of books on Shakespeare, the city, and diversity, and series editor of ‘Critica e letteratura’ and ‘Angelica’ (Liguori); ‘Ricerca e didattica’ (E.S.I.); ‘Biblioteca di Anglistica Fernando Ferrara’ (Giannini).

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Literature and the Digital World

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