The internet age and literature
Friday, February 29th, 2008 (All day)
The Spanish writer Vicente Luis Mora, the youngest director of a Cervantes Institute (Albuquerque New Mexico), began the third module, entitled Narration in the 21st century: New story formats in the internet age, of the Latin American Narrative certificate program run by the UDGLA.
During his lecture, which was introduced by Dr. Dulce Ma. Zúñiga, director of the University of Guadalajara’s Department of Literary Studies and coordinator of the Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar lecture series, Vicente Luis Mora rejected the notion that "everything has already been written." New technologies, he asserted, are making new contributions to literary innovation, not only as sources of information but as agents of literary creation. Citing situations where authors considered the distortions that photocopiers made to printed material as outright literary acts, he said it follows that blogs and websites are innate narrative vehicles which are deserving of literary consideration.
During his lecture, which was introduced by Dr. Dulce Ma. Zúñiga, director of the University of Guadalajara’s Department of Literary Studies and coordinator of the Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar lecture series, Vicente Luis Mora rejected the notion that "everything has already been written." New technologies, he asserted, are making new contributions to literary innovation, not only as sources of information but as agents of literary creation. Citing situations where authors considered the distortions that photocopiers made to printed material as outright literary acts, he said it follows that blogs and websites are innate narrative vehicles which are deserving of literary consideration.