To this end, I have commissioned digital artist/writers
From all of the examples given so far it seems like you need to be a master of quite a few different trades to be able to produce e-lit. There's the prose, the graphics, the ability to code in some way. It seems like e-lit may be a team sport.
But not being mainstreamed does not mean elit does not exist or if it did exist at one time, that it is now dead.
...said every "nerd" ever about every niche interest that has every existed.
Colossal Cave Adventure, the first textual adventure game
I wonder if it's anything like Oregon Trail. Did anyone else play that game growing up?
Early hypertext fictions, Coover wrote, gave careful readers a sense of “losing oneself to a text . . . until clicking the mouse is as unconscious an act as turning a page, and much less constraining, more compelling.” (“Literary Hypertext”)
Less constraining! More Compelling! I'm curious to see exactly what that looks and feels like as "literature."
"literary works created with the use of a computer for the electronic medium such that they cannot be experienced in any meaningful way without the mediation of an electronic device"
So...if I'm understanding this...they are saying that it is the electronic device that needs to add a new level or dimension to consumption of the literature in order for it to be e-lit. An e-book..is just a book on a kindle. But a device must play a part in enhancing the story in order for it to be e-lit.
The confrontation with technology at the level of creation is what distinguishes electronic literature from, for example, e-books, digitized versions of print works, and other products of print authors “going digital.”
The idea of there being a confrontation of technology and literature to create something new feels like a medium that is full of dissonance and an almost kinetic quality. When thought of in that way, it truly begins to feel different from e-books and other converted print works.
Novels that take the form of emails, SMS messages, or blogs
As a fan of epistolary novels, I really look forward to seeing how these little personal tidbits can come together to form a complete narrative.