OD BIOLOGICKÉHO KYBERTEXTU KU GENETICKEJ POÉZII

• Authors: Peter Sýkora

Title variants

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From biological cyber-text to genetic poetry

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The goal of this study is to show that biological texts are not „texts“ only in a metaphorical sense, but in a full post Lotmanian meaning of this term within literary studies. Genetic text written in DNA code is not a biological parallel to printed books, but rather a cyber-text in the sense of Aarseth’s definition of ergodic literature. The cyber-textual feature of living cells creates a space for the creation of new forms of remediation of literary works within biomedia. It opens new horizons for a literary work and generates new literary forms, such as genetic poetry. First, we show how biological texts fulfil the criteria of Aarseth’s cyber-text definition, than we demonstrate the process of the remediation of literary texts into biomedia on the examples of the authors Wong, Davis, Kac and Bök.

Keywords

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REMEDIATION; CYBERTEXT; GENETIC POETRY; BIOMEDIA

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 5 (22)
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 39 – 53

Contributors

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Peter Sýkora

• Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Sv. Cyrila a Metoda, Nám. J. Herdu 2, 917 01 Trnava, Slovak Republic