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Ambient Literature : Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices, Hardback Book

Ambient Literature : Towards a New Poetics of Situated Writing and Reading Practices Hardback

Edited by Tom Abba, Jonathan Dovey, Kate Pullinger

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This book considers how a combination of place-based writing and location responsive technologies produce new kinds of literary experiences.

Building on the work done in the Ambient Literature Project (2016–2018), this books argues that these encounters constitute new literary forms, in which the authored text lies at the heart of an embodied and mediated experience.

The visual, sonic, social and historic resources of place become the elements of a live and emergent mise-en-scène.

Specific techniques of narration, including hallucination, memory, history, place based writing, and drama, as well as reworking of traditional storytelling forms combine with the work of app and user experience design, interaction, software authoring, and GIS (geographical information systems) to produce ambient experiences where the user reads a textual and sonic literary space.

These experiences are temporary, ambiguous, and unpredictable in their meaning but unlike the theatre, the gallery, or the cinema they take place in the everyday shared world.

The book explores the potentiality of a new literary form produced by the exchange between location-aware cultural objects, writers and readers.

This book, and the work it explores, lays the ground for a new poetics of situated writing and reading practices.

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