Rajesh, I take your point and didn't mean to derail the conversation. I
suggest we stay with literature and poetics for the moment and broaden it to
other texts as a later topic. Does everyone agree?
Apologies for causing a diversion!
Sue
>
> Sue, I was wondering why you were silent on the subject for so long.
> Welcome back.
>
> I don't think the original issue can be correctly debated after
> altering one of the constituent terms of the debate. If you would
> reread my earlier mails, my queries were specifically directed at the
> problematic of reconceiving the literary imaginary in the wake of the
> virtual/digital phenomena. Even though it is a historical-ideological
> construction, literature cannot be simply wished out of existence.
>
> Moreover, in order to emancipate ourselves from the canonical we do
> not have to necessarily (and arbitrarily) abandon literature as a
> category. The better approach would be to de-canonize literature
> itself, as the protagonists of postcolonial and feminist studies have
> done, and not dissolve literature into writing or information.
> Replacing the category of literature with that of writing or
> information or sign systems may make the debate more convenient and
> wider and current, but it results in sidestepping the quetion of what
> I may call the phenomenology of digital literature. And then, would
> you not agree that literature is not just information? That sometimes
> it is there without information?
>
> In fact, I find Upton's point about the poetic an excellent direction
> for further debate.
>
> Perhaps we could ask what is information? And what is writing? In the
> interest of clarity and rigour.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Rajesh
>
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