Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995

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2007
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9780817315627
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xxiv, 349
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In this book, the author, Chris Funkhouser provides a comprehensive historical, descriptive, and technical account of early works of computer-assisted poetry composition. Focusing on examples of digital poetry before the world wide web rather than on literary precursors to web experiments. Funkhouser demonstrates how technological constraints that would seemingly limit the aesthetics of poetry have instead extended and enriched poetic discourse. As a history of early digital poetry and a record of an era that has passed, this study aspires both to influence poets working today and to highlight what the future of digital poetry may hold. The book is divided into five different sections: origination, visual and kinetic design poems, hypertext and hypermedia, alternative arrangements and techniques enabled.

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Evaluating Digital Literature: Social Networks, Selection Processes and Criteria Alexandra Saemmer 2012
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In the Event of a Variable Text J. R. Carpenter Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 2017
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New Directions in Digital Poetry Chris Funkhouser Continuum 2012
Next Generation Literary Machines: The “Dynamic Network Aesthetic” of Contemporary Poetry Generators Holly Dupej 2012
Notes on the Voyage: From Mainframe Experimentalism to Electronic Literature J. R. Carpenter 2013
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