Critical Trends in Reading Digital Literature: A New Interdisciplinary Approach

Abstract

This research addresses modern critical trends in reading digital literature through an interdisciplinary approach that combines several contemporary critical approaches. This approach attempts to understand the nature of the new literary text that has emerged in the interactive digital space and the transformations it has undergone at the levels of structure, medium, and reception mechanisms The research is based on the hypothesis that digital literature, with its multiple media and interactions, cannot be read or interpreted using traditional critical tools It is an approach based on the overlap of cognitive fields, and allows for reading digital literature from intertwined angles: artistic, aesthetic, cultural, and semiological.

, alone. Rather, it requires the use of multiple cognitive approaches that complement each other. Hence, the interdisciplinary approach was introduced as a frame of reference for the research. The research has demonstrated that these trends combined enable us to understand the nature of digital literature and deconstruct its artistic and semantic dimensions, particularly in light of the declining centrality of the author, the rise of the reader as a producer of meaning, and the transformation of the text into an open, interactive experience.