This book reconstructs the history of Italian electronic literature, looking at creative practices across literature, electronic and digital media from the early days of computers to the social media age. Topics include criticism of mass media, globalisation, information society and late capitalism as well as the enhancement of language itself.
Emanuela Patti is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests range across a variety of areas, including Italian literature and culture, media and cultural studies, digital cultures and digital humanities. She was part of the AHRC-funded collaborative project Interdisciplinary Italy 1900–2020: interart/intermedia, which supported the publication of this book. She is the author of Pasolini After Dante: the «Divine Mimesis» and the Politics of Representation (2016) and editor of a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Critical Studies titled Experimental Narratives: From the Novel to Digital Storytelling (2016), among other publications.