Abstract

ALVAREZ-UMBARILA, JUAN. "BREATHE": THE SPATIAL TRIANGULATION OF EVERYDAY LITERARY EXPERIENCE IN AMBIENT LITERATURE AND M-READING. perifrasis. rev.lit.teor.crit. [online]. 2022, vol.13, n.26, pp.123-141.  Epub May 15, 2022. ISSN 2145-8987.  https://doi.org/10.25025/penfrasis202213.26.07.

This paper proposes an analysis of "Breathe" (2018)-a smartphone short story that customizes its content according to the reader's contextual data-through the "triangulation" of three interdependent spaces of interaction: story, technology, and environment. The central proposition is that the interrelation of these three proposed spaces can locate the literary experience of "Breathe" in real-life circumstances, and it builds on the presupposition that literature is not experienced in a vacuum, but in real-life situations that involve concrete purposes, technologies, audiences, and environments. Ultimately, this paper wonders about how embodied technologies and situated experiences affect our interactions with literary texts.

Keywords : Kate Pullinger; triangulation; ambient literature; m-reading; e-books.

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