Abstract

This paper considers some of the benefits of reading and writing e-literature, including its influences on prints texts, challenges to the imagination, and attention to metafictive devices and processes. The less cohesive, more fragmented quality of e-literature creates a subjunctive space for creation where writers can consider interesting pathways and diversions since the digital form supports multidirectional structures. Using data from a digital literacy study with an eleventh grade English class as well as her own writing of fiction and poetry, the author suggests that the fragmented nature of e-literature offers benefits for learning in school that complement rather than replace more traditional forms of literature.

Citation

Luce-Kapler, R. (2006). Creative Fragments: The Subjunctive Spaces of E-Literature. English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 5(2), 6-16. Retrieved March 22, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/71109/.

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Keywords

• Computer Assisted Instruction
• Creative Writing
• creativity
• educational technology
• Electronic Publishing
• English Instruction
• Foreign Countries
• Grade 11
• hypermedia
• internet
• literacy
• Literature
• Reading Processes
• Secondary School Students
• teaching methods
• Writing Processes