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3.11 - (Plat)forms after Genres

from History 3 - Forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2024

By
Ellen Rutten
Edited by
Simon Franklin ,
Rebecca Reich  and
Emma Widdis
Simon Franklin
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Rebecca Reich
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Emma Widdis
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

Ever since the 1960s, Russophone professional and lay authors have been leaving the printed page and climbing onto other – and, with time, online – platforms, and pairing words with (moving) images with fervour. How should we define their activities? How should we assess their visual and digital experiments? Can a social-media entry in verse by a poet be considered literature? To what extent can the text-oriented tools of traditional literary studies help us unpack GIF-laden online stories? And how do understandings of literature as a highbrow cultural practice help us to understand social-media odes to classics by teenagers? This chapter follows the forms that Russophone literary activities have taken beyond print outlets, paying special attention to digital-writing forms. It surveys literary production across websites, social media, and other digital platforms from the mid−1990s to the early 2020s by authors including Olia Lialina, Roman Leibov, Linor Goralik, Dmitrii Vodennikov, and Galina Rymbu.

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visual experimentsdigital platformssocial mediablogswebsitesdigital writing forms
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The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature , pp. 643 - 657
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Bronwen, Thomas, Literature and Social Media (New York: Routledge, 2020).Google Scholar
Hänsgen, Sabine, ‘Poetic performance: Script and voice’, in Janecek, Gerald (ed.), Staging the Image: Dmitry Prigov as Artist and Writer (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2018), pp. 5–22.Google Scholar
Howanitz, Gernot, ‘The life and death of the Russian blog’, ZOiS Spotlight 11 (2019), https://en.zois-berlin.de/publications/zois-spotlight/archiv-2019/the-life-and-death-of-the-russian-blog.Google Scholar
Jurgenson, Nathan, ‘The IRL fetish’, New Inquiry (28 June 2012), https://thenewinquiry.com/the-irl-fetish/.Google Scholar
Perloff, Marjorie, Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).Google Scholar
Rettberg, Scott, Electronic Literature (Oxford: Polity, 2018).Google Scholar
Schmidt, Henrike, ‘From samizdat to New Sincerity: Digital literature on the Russian-language internet’, in Gritsenko, Daria, Wijermars, Mariëlle, and Kopotev, Mikhail (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 255–75.Google Scholar
Shulgin, Alexei, ‘Art, power, and communication’, Nettime (7 Oct. 1996), www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9610/msg00036.html.Google Scholar
Strukov, Vlad, ‘Digital art: A sourcebook of ideas for conceptualizing new practices, networks and modes of self-expression’, in Gritsenko, Wijermars, and Kopotov (eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies, pp. 241–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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