E-Lit. Definitions, Emerging Forms, Methodology, Context
The research is related to the concept of e-lit, a novel kind of literature and academically still relatively unexplored. Although there are heated debates regarding e-lit’s acceptance by traditional literary audiences, critics, and academics, there is evidence that it has been embraced by large groups of students. The latest online teaching activities show students’ growing interest and participation in reading and devising digital texts, though e-lit has not yet been widely approved as part of school curricula. The impact of e-lit has recently filtered up to academia, as evidenced by conferences and associations dedicated to scholarly perspectives on new literary trends. The main focus of the research is on an integrative classification of e-lit’s diverse definitions, its brief historical survey, a critical discussion of its emerging literary forms, and a study of its developing methodology, to be used in a new M.A. course syllabus.
Milena Kaličanin, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of English in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Niš, Serbia. She is the author of the books The Faustian Motif in Tragedies by Christopher Marlowe (2013), Political vs. Personal in Shakespeare’s History Plays (2017), Uncovering Caledonia. An Introduction to Scottish Studies (2018), and English Renaissance Literature Textbook (2020, with Sanja Ignjatović). She is also the co-editor (with Sona Snircova) of the books Growing Up a Woman. The Public/Private Divide in Narratives of Female Development (2015), and Representations of the Local in the Postmillennial Novel. New Voices from the Margins (2022). Her academic interests include Renaissance English literature, Canadian studies, British (especially Scottish) studies, and digital literature.
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This lecture investigates the concept of e-lit, a novel kind of literature and academically still relatively unexplored. Although there are heated debates regarding e-lit’s acceptance by traditional literary audiences, critics, and academics, there is evidence that it has been embraced by large groups of students.