Abstract
Investigating the interaction between analog and digital worlds, it emerged the perimeter of a new artistic paradigm developing from a “convergent” cultural context where the literary text carries out its main functions albeit alongside digital technologies that, gradually penetrating the processes of literary fruition, determine some revolutionary dynamics of literary hybridization. Taking up the reflections of a large master’s thesis work, the aim of the investigation is to focus on these new forms of literary contamination, recognised in the two opposing models such as literary monumentality, where the essential reference to authorship prevails, and digital performativity, where instead the monumental corporality undergoes a process of hybridization through AI-based generative technologies, at the end of which it assumes a fluid form that maintains and denies authorship and traditional conventions. A brief chronological analysis is proposed, starting from the initial impact of hybridized methods of DH, such as Moretti’s distant reading, Simonton’s type-token ratio and Youmans’s applied historiometry, passing through poetry generation, the path of gradual convergence and interpenetration between traditional literary text and digital technologies is shaped, which finally flows into both the electronic literature of generative models such as Chat GPT and Sudowrite and the digital incarnations of conversational models such as Dialogflow. Subsequently, a case study on Shakespeare is proposed, analysed both as an example of poetic research that evolves from poetry as fullness to poetry as liveliness; and as an example of experimentation with generative tools for the generation of unpublished posthumous contents and conversational supports via chatbots.
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
LITERATURE, AI, POSTHUMAN, SHAKESPEARE, DIGITAL HUMANITIES, MEMORY, RECEPTION STUDIES
