This concentration explores literature from an architectural point of view, comparing the structure discovered in literary systems across languages and paradigms. I wish to study the fundamental forms of literature without regard for borders, from the epic novel to the short essay, from Spanish poetry to Ruby computer code. I approach the subject under the influence of systems theory, trying to understand the emergent properties that arise from evolving literary systems. Although the concentration can support a wide range of comparisons, in art, fiction, natural sciences, mathematics, language, and so on, I will focus on systems from the fields I am most familiar with: fiction, essays, computer programming, and the parallel structures in Spanish. I also intend to use this concentration as a laboratory by designing, building, using, and then analyzing
my own variants of literary systems.
You are inside of one of these systems at this moment.
