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- Title
Computer-Generated Fiction in a Literary Lineage: Breaking the hermeneutic contract.
- Authors
Henrickson, Leah
- Abstract
This article examines the place of computer-generated literary texts within the boundaries of modern literary analysis. Any act of reading engages interpretive faculties; modern readers assume a text to embody human agency. With this assumption, readers assign authorial intention and hence develop a perceived contract between the author and the reader. Yet computer-generated texts bring this contract into question. Drawing from historical examples of conceptual writing, this article shows how computer-generated fiction calls into question current conceptions of authorship and what it means to be a reader, but it nevertheless fits within a longstanding literary lineage.
- Subjects
COMPUTER literacy software; LITERATURE publishing; NATURAL languages; AUTHORSHIP; WRITTEN communication
- Publication
LOGOS: The Journal of the World Book Community, 2018, Vol 29, Issue 2/3, p54
- ISSN
0957-9656
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/18784712-02902007