THE TYPOLOGY OF MODERN VIRTUAL LITERARY GENRES

Abstract

The article studies one of the most complex, controversial, but certainly interesting and rapidly developing phenomena of modern art culture – electronic literature, the poetics of which is in urgent need of scientific understanding. The authors of this research give a brief overview of the state of the problem, including the positions “for” and “against” E-Lit, provide the definitions of network literature currently available to critics. The researchers compile a typology of modern virtual genres (10 genres defined by ELO, Internet novel, comic, fan fiction), paying special attention to the specifics of the author’s hypertext program “Storyspace”, interactive fiction. Based on the considered examples of virtual genres, an analysis is made of the prospects for the interaction of print and electronic literature, as a result of which the genres of digital art are constantly replenished with new hybrid forms.