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The Ideological Limits of Digital Poetics

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Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay

Professor and Research Fellow, University of Guanajuato, Mexico. Email: chiefeditor@rupkatha.com

 Volume 13, Number 4, 2021 I Full-Text PDF

DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n4.01

 Abstract

Digital poetics has emerged as a genre following the development of machine augmented literatures. An algorithm could generate transient but successful emotive appraisals that characterize human poetry. Production of cybertext is enabled by the presence of advanced Anglophone Synset compilations, text summarization and development-constrained specifics of the corpora. Digital poetics in regional non-Anglophone languages thus remain marginalized owing to language dependency across the world’s media divide. Whereas such hierarchies are inevitable in a technologically divided world the recognition of these problems and logical solutions may help foment innovation, entrepreneurship and affirmative opportunities for underdeveloped economies.

Keywords: Digital Poetics, Cybertext, Hypertext,  Indowordnet

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