RECEPTION OF LITERATURE GENERATED BY ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS

• Authors: Husárová Zuzana , Piorecký Karel Karel
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article introduces the phenomenon of literature generated by artificial neural networks, with specific examples of texts created in the Czech and Slovak cultural environment. It follows the historical background connected with generative and combinatory poetics and later describes the principles of data processing used by neural networks work; it also presents the parameters of their machine learning. The focus lies on the reception of these artificial texts in the media and in literary studies, leading to the proposition of two reading types specialized for these works: “reading of artificiality” and “literary meta-reading”, while rehabilitating Mathauser’s term of “meta-hability”. The study concludes by suggesting “literary meta-reading of artificiality” as a term that would combine the aforementioned approaches into a new reception of neural network literature.

Keywords

EN

LITERATURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; GENERATIVE LITERATURE; ARTIFICIAL POETRY; META-READING

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 44 - 60

Contributors

author

Husárová Zuzana

• Faculty of Education, Comenius University, Šoltésovej 4, 811 08 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0022-3322

author

Piorecký Karel Karel

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5727-289X

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/WLS.2022.14.1.4