This paper offers a perspective on the Internet and literature interface, with a special focus on the issue of intertextuality, in an attempt to delimit those issues specific to networked literature, as against digital or hypertextual literature. I will focus on literature as a family of medium-conditioned discursive practices, and examine the consequences of digital networks for a redefinition of these practices. These consequences will be approached from four viewpoints: a perspective on the Internet as literature, and of literature as an Internet: together with an examination of literature in the Internet, and of the Internet in literature. Among the topics addressed will be issues of interactivity, the blogosphere, postmodernist fiction, and the cyborganization of social communication.

Linkterature: From Word to Web 

Or: 

Literature in the Internet - Internet as Literature - Literature as Internet - Internet in Literature

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1025231

25 Pages Posted: 30 Oct 2007

José Angel García Landa

Universidad de Zaragoza

Date Written: July 2006

Keywords: Internet, Literature, Publishing, Media, Intertextuality, Links, Hypertext, Blogs



Suggested Citation:

Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, Linkterature: From Word to Web Or: Literature in the Internet - Internet as Literature - Literature as Internet - Internet in Literature (July 2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1025231 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1025231

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This paper began as an online work in progress deliverd then as a lecture at a conference on Internet and Language at Castellón. The original long version is followed by a shortened version, entitled "Literature and Internet", which appeared in a volume based on the conference, edited by Santiago Posteguillo et al. (2007). Both of these are available online in several repositories and websites: _____. "Linkterature: From Word to Web." Lecture at the International Conference on Internet and Language ICIL'05. Castellón de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I, 27 Oct. 2005.          http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/publicaciones/linkterature.doc          2005 DISCONTINUED 2020          http://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/linkterature.doc          2020 _____. "Linkterature: From Word to Web. Or: Literature in the Internet - Internet as Literature - Literature as Internet - Internet in Literature" (July 2006). PDF at Social Science Research Network 30 Oct. 2007.* http://ssrn.com/abstract=1025231          http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1025231 2007          Literary Theory and Criticism eJournal 30 Oct. 2007.*          https://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Lit-Theory-Criticism.html          2020          Economic & Social Impacts of Innovation eJournal 30 Oct. 2007.*          https://www.ssrn.com/link/Economic-Social-Impacts-Innovation.html          2020          Writing Technologies eJournal 30 Oct. 2007.*          https://www.ssrn.com/link/Writing-Technologies.html          2020 _____. "Linkterature: From Word to Web. Or: Literature in the Internet - Internet as Literature - Literature as Internet - Internet in Literature." In Zaguán 18 Feb. 2009.*          http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/2006          2009 _____. "Linkterature: From Word to Web." iPaper at ResearchGate 12 May 2012.*          http://www.researchgate.net/publication/33419617          2012 _____. "Linkterature: From Word to Web." Academia 27 Oct. 2013.*          http://www.academia.edu/168006          2013 _____. "Literature in Internet." In The Texture of Internet: Netlinguistics in Progress. Ed. Santiago Posteguillo, María José Esteve and M. Lluïsa Gea-Valor. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 143-61.* (Abridged version of "Linkterature").          http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/The-Texture-of-Internet--Netlinguistics-in-Progress.htm          2007-11-20 _____. "Literature in Internet." Online PDF at Social Science Research Network 30 May 2011.*          http://ssrn.com/abstract=1855659          2011          Information Systems: Behavioral & Social Methods eJournal 30 May 2011.*          http://www.ssrn.com/link/info-sys-behavioral-social-methods.html          2012          Literary Theory and Criticism eJournal 30 May 2011.*          http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Lit-Theory-Criticism.html          2012          Writing Technologies eJournal 30 May 2011.*  http://www.ssrn.com/link/Writing-Technologies.html          2012 _____. "Linkterature: From Word to Web." Academia 27 Oct. 2013.*          http://www.academia.edu/168006          2013          https://www.academia.edu/104883490/          2023          https://www.academia.edu/107124292/          2023 _____. "Literature in Internet." ResearchGate 3 May 2013.*          https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228176274          2013

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