Digital Literature: analysis of cyberpoems

• Main Author: Celso Leopoldo Pagnan
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná 2017-12-01
• Series: Travessias
• Subjects: literatura digital; multimodalidade; multiletramento; hibridismo
• Online Access: http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/18080

The present article discourses about digital or electronic literature, as it is called in the United States, understood as such the literature produced specifically for the Web and not to be printed in paper. It is a literature still in search of aesthetic and technical paths, but that has already directed to certain trends, with the mix of languages and resources (image, audio, verbal text). This article aims at reflecting on this production, in order to find elements for its analysis, based on a theoretical reference that discusses concepts such as multimodality and multiliteracy, such as Red (2013), Kress (1998), Van Leeuwen (2011), Hayles (2009), Almeida (2011), Gomes (2011) and Moreira (2013) among others. As a methodology, we will specifically analyze some digital literary pieces of work, such as Dois Palitos (Two matchsticks) and 18:30 by Samir Mesquita, as well as the reference to other digital texts, notably those made available in Artery 8 Digital Magazine, with several authors, including concretist poets such as Augusto dos Campos and Arnaldo Antunes. As characteristic of Web language, that kind of artistic production is characterized by conciseness and discursive fragmentation. Strictly speaking, we are faced with hybrid texts that collaborate to establish new perspectives on the literary universe and even on today's life.