摘要：To date, smalleffort has been given to createa generalcritical vocabulary for describing the widerange of digitalliteraryworks. This paper attempts to describearange ofeffects in digitalliterature—relating to time, power, scale, duplication, being,and the ontology ofthe database— and introducesa newconcept, the“simple,” here understood asa node oftext/algorithminteraction. Severalsmall-scale works that operate on one or two newmedia principlescan be grouped under thesesimples. Cumulative works (such as the magisterial“88 Constellations for Wittgenstein” byDavid Clark) here known as“ludic books,”are described as being composed ofseveral ofthesesimples.
