Electronic literacy was a foreign term to me until I spent some time in Dr. Umland's English course. This course explores E-Lit and how it applies to students, teachers, and the future of literature. In this college course, our class has read several books to better understand the subject including N. Katherine Hayles' Electronic Literature: New Horizon
s for the Literary and Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millenium. In this blog I will focus on Italo Calvino's work and how it applies to some of the electronic literature examples found in Hayles' book. Calvino was not referring to E-Lit in his lectures that were published from 1985-1986, but his insight does relate to this topic. I will comment on Calvino's work as well as relate it to E-Lit by using examples found on N. Katherine Hayles' website found at: http://collection.eliterature.org/1/index.html.
