Digital Litteratur: En innføring

In the last decades a new type of literary text has appeared, written for screen and not paper. Aside from written words the text uses modalities such as pictures, verbal language, sound, music and movement, and they involve the reader and perhaps also the computer in text creation through organizing principles such as hypertext and cybertext. This book presents an overview of digital literature with special focus on Scandinavian examples, and discusses how digital literature gives a picture of our time, and challenges our concept of literature. Some questions in the book: * What happens when literary text must be read on a screen? * Can literature generated by a computer be art? * How can social media influence literature? This book is relevant for all who work with, or study, literature and transmission of literture, for example students and teachers in various literature and media subjects.