The digitization of the publishing business has provided publishers with new media and new means of distribution, which in turn have created new modes of reading. The impact of the digital revolution on the production and distribution of literature has already been widely discussed, but much less has been written about how current media developments have affected reading and readers. A central thesis of this special issue is that the phenomenon of reading should be studied from various disciplinary perspectives. Reading as a phenomenon evolves in the intersections among media developments, literary trends, and social practices. By bringing together scholars from literary theory, media studies, aesthetics, anthropology, psychology, and linguistics, the special issue explores different perspectives on how the technological, sensorial, cognitive, participatory, and aesthetic aspects of reading have evolved in recent decades. Reading practices are changing rapidly in close conjunction with the evolving formats in which literature is distributed to its readers. The purpose of the special issue is to provide a forum in which to rethink existing categories and challenge prevalent notions of reading.

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Stefan Kjerkegaard: “Genre-Flux in Danish Poetry of the 00s: The Autobiographical Poem”This article deals with what it defines as the autobiographical poem and tries to show how this specific genre is an emergent and shared feature of a genre-flux in the Danish poetry of the 00s. Much poetry of the 00s seems to be in a divergent relationship to what has been called “the lyric poem” and in contrast with the ways poetry as such has been perceived and confused with “lyric poetry”. Today poetry seems to be more in accordance with poetry as a spacious and intermedial genre, ranging from oral performances to the written poem.

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