1616 (Mar 2016)

Towards a Canon of Electronic Literature?

  • Virgilio TORTOSA

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 0
pp. 22 – 44

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Twenty-five years after the creation of the first hypertext itself, we allow ourselves to reflect on the opportunity to affirm the presence of a hiperliterary canon emerged in this incipient way, or on the contrary if the limitations of this modality are among its difficulty note in literary instituted between broader sectors of the reader beyond the academic society. A review of those scriptures reference to its diffusing action, and the debate on the difficulties of language that paradoxically born with vocation universalizing article focus reflection, ending with what could be controversial: overconfidence and reading responsibility weigh its popularization.

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