New Textualities

• Author(s): Portela, Manuel
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/17854
• Origin: Estudo Geral - Universidade de Coimbra
• Subject(s): Remediation; Textuality; Social text; Digital archives; Electronic text; Cybertext
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

This article introduces EJES, vol. 11, issue 2, New Textualities. It briefly outlines the relation between theoretical and technological changes that has led to a re-examination of textual forms in the digital age. Texts as both social text and technotext are tentatively explored in the context of remediation and proliferation of textual materialities that defines contemporary culture. The six articles contained in this issue deal with specific aspects of this linguistic and literary context, in which texts, metatexts and tools for analysing texts are fostering a new critical awareness of textual phenomena and textual representation.