Reham Hosny (University of Cambridge and Minia University) asserts that works of e-lit resist str... more Reham Hosny (University of Cambridge and Minia University) asserts that works of e-lit resist straightforward classification due to their "hybrid and mosaic nature." This complexity poses formidable hurdles in the development of computational models aimed at categorizing e-lit into distinct genres. The challenge is further compounded by issues such as media format obsolescence, ephemerality, interactivity, and the wide array of manifestations across different platforms. Despite these formidable challenges, Hosny not only explores potential solutions but also provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the core issues associated with the classification of e-lit.
This paper is intended to help identify and build a new generation of Arab e-lit critics and writ... more This paper is intended to help identify and build a new generation of Arab e-lit critics and writers by diagnosing the circumstances of the Arabic classroom situation. My method in this ongoing research project is to conduct interviews with Arab professors of e-lit and surveys for the students. Additionally, my firsthand experience, as an assistant lecturer, in teaching in an Egyptian university (Minia University) will be of great help in understanding the capabilities of the Arabic classroom settings.
In her essay, Egyptian elit scholar Reham Hosny observes and quantifies the ways that Arabic elec... more In her essay, Egyptian elit scholar Reham Hosny observes and quantifies the ways that Arabic electronic literature has been historically underrepresented in the predominant critical venues like the ELO's Electronic Literature Collections and other central repositories for the dissemination and study of e-lit. Rather than simply observing this vacancy, however, Hosny proposes real, practical methods for addressing and bridging this discrepancy, bringing new works to light and encouraging translation, open access, and consideration of the language-based and nationalist biases in the scholarship surrounding elit.
The central objective of this paper is to provide a new conceptual theoretical framework starting... more The central objective of this paper is to provide a new conceptual theoretical framework starting from the role of new new media in shaping a new kind of literature, which I call Cosmo-Literature. Towards this, I start working from Levinson’s differentiation among old media, new media, and new new media to arrive at the difference among the variable types of media. Next, I address the role of new new media in establishing world democracies and changing the social, cultural, and political world map. After that, I investigate the terms of “global village” and “cosmopolitanism” in relation to literature. To clarify what I mean by Cosmo Literature, I will investigate two new new media novels: Only One Millimeter Away, an Arabic Facebook novel by the Moroccan novelist Abdel-Wahid Stitu, and Hearts, Keys and Puppetry an English Twitter novel by Neil Gaiman, to infer the characteristics of Cosmo-Literature in general and Cosmo narration in particular.
Reham Hosny observes and quantifies the ways that Arabic electronic literature has been historica... more Reham Hosny observes and quantifies the ways that Arabic electronic literature has been historically underrepresented in the predominant critical venues like the ELO's Electronic Literature Collections and other central repositories for the dissemination and study of e-lit. Rather than simply observing this vacancy, however, Hosny proposes real, practical methods for addressing and bridging this discrepancy, bringing new works to light and encouraging translation, open access, and consideration of the language-based and nationalist biases in the scholarship surrounding elit.
تناقش الباحثة مفاهيم ما بعد الإنسانية، و الرقمية، و بعد ما بعد الحداثة، ثم الإرهاصات التي أنذرت ب... more تناقش الباحثة مفاهيم ما بعد الإنسانية، و الرقمية، و بعد ما بعد الحداثة، ثم الإرهاصات التي أنذرت بنهاية فترة ما بعد الحداثة، و بشرت ببداية فترة تاريخية جديدة، تطمئن الباحثة إلى تسميتها بعد ما بعد الحداثة، و كذلك أهم النظريات التي ظهرت للتنظير لهذه اللحظة الحضارية الجديدة.
This paper is intended to help identify and build a new generation of Arab e-lit critics and writ... more This paper is intended to help identify and build a new generation of Arab e-lit critics and writers by diagnosing the circumstances of the Arabic classroom situation. My method in this ongoing research project is to conduct interviews with Arab professors of e-lit and surveys for the students. Additionally, my firsthand experience, as an assistant lecturer, in teaching in an Egyptian university (Minia University) will be of great help in understanding the capabilities of the Arabic classroom settings.
This paper explores two digital texts as cross-cultural and cross-linguistic explorations, and as... more This paper explores two digital texts as cross-cultural and cross-linguistic explorations, and as potential first steps for developing a world digital critical approach, namely: Deena Larsen’s “Carving in Possibilities,” which presents an exemplary instance of the electronic literature as it has developed in the West; and “Tabarih Raqamiyya Li-sira Ba'duha Azraq” (“Digital Agonies of a Biography Part of Which is Blue”) by the Iraqi poet Mushtaq Abbas Ma'an, who is considered the pioneer of electronic Arabic poetry. I argue that while each culture and linguistic sphere brings its own premises, the influence of digital media upon a given sphere invariably produces many intermixings and convergences.
Reham Hosny (University of Cambridge and Minia University) asserts that works of e-lit resist str... more Reham Hosny (University of Cambridge and Minia University) asserts that works of e-lit resist straightforward classification due to their "hybrid and mosaic nature." This complexity poses formidable hurdles in the development of computational models aimed at categorizing e-lit into distinct genres. The challenge is further compounded by issues such as media format obsolescence, ephemerality, interactivity, and the wide array of manifestations across different platforms. Despite these formidable challenges, Hosny not only explores potential solutions but also provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the core issues associated with the classification of e-lit.
This paper is intended to help identify and build a new generation of Arab e-lit critics and writ... more This paper is intended to help identify and build a new generation of Arab e-lit critics and writers by diagnosing the circumstances of the Arabic classroom situation. My method in this ongoing research project is to conduct interviews with Arab professors of e-lit and surveys for the students. Additionally, my firsthand experience, as an assistant lecturer, in teaching in an Egyptian university (Minia University) will be of great help in understanding the capabilities of the Arabic classroom settings.
In her essay, Egyptian elit scholar Reham Hosny observes and quantifies the ways that Arabic elec... more In her essay, Egyptian elit scholar Reham Hosny observes and quantifies the ways that Arabic electronic literature has been historically underrepresented in the predominant critical venues like the ELO's Electronic Literature Collections and other central repositories for the dissemination and study of e-lit. Rather than simply observing this vacancy, however, Hosny proposes real, practical methods for addressing and bridging this discrepancy, bringing new works to light and encouraging translation, open access, and consideration of the language-based and nationalist biases in the scholarship surrounding elit.
The central objective of this paper is to provide a new conceptual theoretical framework starting... more The central objective of this paper is to provide a new conceptual theoretical framework starting from the role of new new media in shaping a new kind of literature, which I call Cosmo-Literature. Towards this, I start working from Levinson’s differentiation among old media, new media, and new new media to arrive at the difference among the variable types of media. Next, I address the role of new new media in establishing world democracies and changing the social, cultural, and political world map. After that, I investigate the terms of “global village” and “cosmopolitanism” in relation to literature. To clarify what I mean by Cosmo Literature, I will investigate two new new media novels: Only One Millimeter Away, an Arabic Facebook novel by the Moroccan novelist Abdel-Wahid Stitu, and Hearts, Keys and Puppetry an English Twitter novel by Neil Gaiman, to infer the characteristics of Cosmo-Literature in general and Cosmo narration in particular.
Reham Hosny observes and quantifies the ways that Arabic electronic literature has been historica... more Reham Hosny observes and quantifies the ways that Arabic electronic literature has been historically underrepresented in the predominant critical venues like the ELO's Electronic Literature Collections and other central repositories for the dissemination and study of e-lit. Rather than simply observing this vacancy, however, Hosny proposes real, practical methods for addressing and bridging this discrepancy, bringing new works to light and encouraging translation, open access, and consideration of the language-based and nationalist biases in the scholarship surrounding elit.
تناقش الباحثة مفاهيم ما بعد الإنسانية، و الرقمية، و بعد ما بعد الحداثة، ثم الإرهاصات التي أنذرت ب... more تناقش الباحثة مفاهيم ما بعد الإنسانية، و الرقمية، و بعد ما بعد الحداثة، ثم الإرهاصات التي أنذرت بنهاية فترة ما بعد الحداثة، و بشرت ببداية فترة تاريخية جديدة، تطمئن الباحثة إلى تسميتها بعد ما بعد الحداثة، و كذلك أهم النظريات التي ظهرت للتنظير لهذه اللحظة الحضارية الجديدة.
This paper is intended to help identify and build a new generation of Arab e-lit critics and writ... more This paper is intended to help identify and build a new generation of Arab e-lit critics and writers by diagnosing the circumstances of the Arabic classroom situation. My method in this ongoing research project is to conduct interviews with Arab professors of e-lit and surveys for the students. Additionally, my firsthand experience, as an assistant lecturer, in teaching in an Egyptian university (Minia University) will be of great help in understanding the capabilities of the Arabic classroom settings.
This paper explores two digital texts as cross-cultural and cross-linguistic explorations, and as... more This paper explores two digital texts as cross-cultural and cross-linguistic explorations, and as potential first steps for developing a world digital critical approach, namely: Deena Larsen’s “Carving in Possibilities,” which presents an exemplary instance of the electronic literature as it has developed in the West; and “Tabarih Raqamiyya Li-sira Ba'duha Azraq” (“Digital Agonies of a Biography Part of Which is Blue”) by the Iraqi poet Mushtaq Abbas Ma'an, who is considered the pioneer of electronic Arabic poetry. I argue that while each culture and linguistic sphere brings its own premises, the influence of digital media upon a given sphere invariably produces many intermixings and convergences.
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potential first steps for developing a world digital critical approach, namely: Deena Larsen’s “Carving in
Possibilities,” which presents an exemplary instance of the electronic literature as it has developed in the
West; and “Tabarih Raqamiyya Li-sira Ba'duha Azraq” (“Digital Agonies of a Biography Part of Which is
Blue”) by the Iraqi poet Mushtaq Abbas Ma'an, who is considered the pioneer of electronic Arabic poetry.
I argue that while each culture and linguistic sphere brings its own premises, the influence of digital
media upon a given sphere invariably produces many intermixings and convergences.
potential first steps for developing a world digital critical approach, namely: Deena Larsen’s “Carving in
Possibilities,” which presents an exemplary instance of the electronic literature as it has developed in the
West; and “Tabarih Raqamiyya Li-sira Ba'duha Azraq” (“Digital Agonies of a Biography Part of Which is
Blue”) by the Iraqi poet Mushtaq Abbas Ma'an, who is considered the pioneer of electronic Arabic poetry.
I argue that while each culture and linguistic sphere brings its own premises, the influence of digital
media upon a given sphere invariably produces many intermixings and convergences.