First Blog Post Electronic Literature By Connor Kobal

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Electronic Literature is a novel, short story, poem or random words or phrases digitalized to interact with the reader using an electronic device as the medium. Readers will interact with whatever the author is trying to portray to the audience. There are often hyperlink interactions, mouse clicks, audio, and keyboard interactions alongside visual effects that give the message to the audience.


TailSpin by Christine Wilks is a very great showcase of how electronic literature is used to give better insight to the general idea of the story. Taking place right after World War 2, this story is of a former aircraft fitters struggles with tinnitus and how civilian life is treating him miserably after the war. He has a form of PTSD and the author portrays this with a lot of  informational spirals telling us this mans life is going into a tailspin. He cannot live everyday life comfortably because of his inability to hear therefore giving him the inability to understand certain things that his family is telling him. There are flashbacks to his war days intertwined with his present life with grandchildren not being able to understand what they are doing or playing with. The on screen effects of a plane flying or kids playing with the sound of a high pitched noise in the background with occasional other noises tells us what he can hear and why he is pestered by the visual of things. I think you get the real feel of what this man was dealing with and the author is portraying to the audience using all the aspects of electronic literature.


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  1. UnknownFebruary 2, 2018 at 7:47 AM

    I myself really likes tailspin because of how it makes sounds to feel irritated just like the former pilot, as you mentioned in your blog. This piece in my opinion definitely stands out from other e - poetry.

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  2. Courtney ClaycombFebruary 2, 2018 at 5:51 PM

    This is a great informative piece about Tailspin! I love the idea of how electronic literature expresses peoples' experiences through digital devices. So when people are playing this piece of literature on a device, they also get to experience how the pilot felt and it makes it more meaningful and helps give a better understanding of what PTSD is like.

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