On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture

Irena Barbara Kalla, PhD (2000), Habil (2014), teaches literature at the Department of Dutch Studies, University of Wrocław. She has published widely on Dutch and Flemish literature, including Programy romantyzmu w Niderlandach (2007) and Huisbeelden in de moderne Nederlandstalige poëzie (2012).Patrycja Poniatowska, PhD (2000), taught at the Department of English Studies, University of Wrocław, and published on Dutch and English Renaissance literature. Currently, she is a book editor and translator (e.g. R. Shusterman, Myślenie ciała/Thinking through the Body, 2016).Dorota Michułka, PhD (1996), Habil (2014), Head of Methodology of Polish Literature and Language Teaching, University of Wrocław. She has published Ad usum Delphini: Edukacja literacka (2013) and articles on children’s literature and culture education. She is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Filoteknos.

“The newly edited book On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture: Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe by Irene Barbara Kalla, Patrycja Poniatowska and Dorota Michuƚka presents eye-opening research and literary experiments that are largely foreign to literary studies in Southeast Asia.” - Florence Toh Haw Ching, Ikhlas Abdul Hadi, Australian International Academic Centre AU in International Journal of Education & Literacy Studies, 2018 pp. 187-188.

• IntroductionBarbara Kalla, Patrycja Poniatowska and Dorota MichułkaPart 1: From the Centre to the Fringes and Back Again1 Two Ends and One Beginning: Notes on the Future of Writing in the Post-Medial ContextMariusz Pisarski2 Digital Literature, Deinosis and Haptic ReadingBarbara Kaszowska-Wandor3 Edgar Allan Poe’s Adventures in Convergence CultureAgata Zarzycka4 The Book and the Tablet as Media of Children’s Literature: A Ukrainian CaseEmilia Ohar5 Literary Experiments with Automatic Translation: A Case Study of a Creative Experiment Involving King Ubu and Google TranslateAleksandra Małecka and Piotr Marecki6 Helping Ourselves Out of the Margins: Handbooks for Creative Writing as a Tool for Analyzing Literary DynamicsDirk de GeestPart 2: Games: Where Narratives (Do Not) Fear to Tread7 The Witcher Adventure (Board) Game in The Witcher Transmedia UniverseAleksandra Mochocka8 Playing the Future History of Humanity: Situating Fallout 3 as a Narratological ArtefactDawn Stobbart9 Storytelling in the Age of Digital Media The Netwars – Out of Control Transmedia Project – A Case StudyŁukasz Mirocha10 The Pitfalls of Narration: Call of Juarez: GunslingerJustyna FruzińskaPart 3: The Literary, the Digital and Their Social (Dis)Contents11 Alice and Paddington: Digital Migrants from Book to FilmJean Webb12 Futures of Copyright: Literature as a Medium of Legal ChangeMaciej Jakubowiak13 Consumers of Popular Culture or Demanding Dictators? The Lithuanian CaseIndrė Žakevičienė14 Product Placement Novels as a Literary MarginAnna Ślósarz15 Book Blogosphere on the Polish InternetKinga Kasperek16 “Children of Our Age”: Digital Media and the Lie of LiteratureMichael Joyce