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Weaving together technology and haiku : Fady Joudah’s Textu

Bugno-Narecka, Dominika LU and Fuhrer, Heidrun LU (2025) In Roczniki Humanistyczne 73(11). p.23-41
Abstract

The article presents Fady Joudah’s Textu as an innovative combination of poetry (haiku) and communication technology (text messaging). The paper questions the traditional distinction between literature and other media, exploring how digital formats affect the understanding of “text” and the experience of reading. The authors of the article invoke intermedial theory (Lars Elleström, Beate Schirrmacher), Roland Barthes’ and Gerard Genette’s concepts of “text” and “work”, as well as more recent notion of cybertext (Aarseth, Eskelinen) to highlight the ambiguous, performative nature of Joudah’s poetry in the context of contemporary digital culture.

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haiku, intermediality, performativity, techneology, text message, Textu
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Roczniki Humanistyczne
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73
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11
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19 pages
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Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
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0035-7707
DOI
10.18290/rh257311.2
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English
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  title        = {{Weaving together technology and haiku : Fady Joudah’s Textu}},
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