Literature and Computation: Platform Intermediality, Hermeneutic Modeling, and Analytical-Creative Approaches...

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Chris Tanasescu

Literature and Computation

Platform Intermediality, Hermeneutic Modeling, and Analytical-Creative Approaches

Chris Tanasescu

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Routledge
28 November 2025

Literary theory; Literary studies: general; Media studies; Computing: general; Computer science

Series: Routledge New Textual Studies in Literature

Literature and Computation presents some of the most relevantly innovative recent approaches to literary practice, theory, and criticism as driven by computation and situated in digital environments. These approaches rely on automated analyses, but use them creatively, engage in text modeling but inform it with qualitative[-interpretive] critical possibilities, and contribute to present-day platform culture in revolutionizing intermedial ways. While such new directions involve more and more sophisticated machine learning and artificial intelligence, they also mark a spectacular return of the (trans)human(istic) and of traditional-modern literary or urgent political, gender, and minority-related concerns and modes now addressed in ever subtler and more nuanced ways within human-computer interaction frameworks. Expanding the boundaries of literary and data studies, digital humanities, and electronic literature, the featured contributions unveil an emerging landscape of trailblazing practice and theoretical crossovers ready and able to spawn and/or chart the witness literature of our age and cultures.

Introduction and Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Edited by: Chris Tanasescu
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032341675
ISBN 10: 103234167X
Series: Routledge New Textual Studies in Literature
Pages: 266
Publication Date: 28 November 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Chris Tanasescu is a poet and academic with backgrounds in English and computer science. The Graph Poem project he started 15 years ago has outputted natural language processing and network science-based poetry classifiers, intermedia performances, and computationally assembled poetry anthologies. His alias MARGENTO refers to a cyber cross-artform ensemble and international coalition of poets-translators, visual artists/musicians, and coders throwing events and launching publications on and off-line in four continents. Chris is currently a research scientist on the PIETRA project at the University of Galway. Previous or ongoing positions and affiliations include Coordinator of Digital Humanities at the University of Ottawa, Altissia Chair in Digital Cultures and Ethics at Université Catholique de Louvain, Senior Researcher in Global Literary Studies and Complex Systems at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, and Visiting Scholar at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, University of Victoria. He is an Asymptote Editor-at-Large.