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1. Stepping Into the River: Experiencing John Cayley's riverIsland

    In this paper I investigate the emergence of new writing and reading practices under the impact of digital media. Examining Cayley's poetic work riverIsland , I focus on what the poet himself calls “literal morphing.” These transformations of letters constitute, I argue, an important shift in poetic writing whose importance for literary analysis must be acknowledged. I conclude that poetic works in programmable media lead to a rethinking of concepts of surface and depth in relation to writing.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 13:36

2. Figures in the Interface: Comparative Methods in the Study of Digital Literature

    This paper, which is part of the collection of essays Reading Moving Letters (see introduction) reflects on what the emerging field of digital literature studies and the more established (but continually evolving) discipline of comparative literature might contribute to one another in terms of defining concepts and methods of literary analysis. My discussion is guided by the tentative proposition that the vexed status of the "national language" for comparative literature can be seen as analogous to the status of the "digital" for scholars undertaking research on computer-based literary texts. Aiming to overcome the ideological strictures of nationalism, many present-day comparatists are returning to the old question "what is literature?" and are placing renewed emphasis on the role of figurative language as a defining feature of literary texts and, consequently, as the appropriate focus of comparative textual analysis.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 15:17

3. Literary Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age

   29 October 1999 Keynote Address, Digital Arts and Culture Atlanta, Georgia (This speech was also published in Feed in 2000.) Coover's DAC Keynote address discussed the transition from the "golden age" of narrative-driven, text-dominated hypertext fiction, mainly produced in Storyspace, to an era dominated by the practices and attention spans of the World Wide Web, and a new focus on the image.

   Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 16:18

4. Print Is Flat, Code Is Deep: Rethinking Signification in New Media

   Lulled into somnolence by five hundred years of print, literary analysis should awaken to the importance of media-specific analysis, a mode of critical attention which recognizes that all texts are instantiated and that the nature of the medium in which they are instantiated matters. Central to repositioning critical inquiry, so it can attend to the specificity of the medium, is a more robust notion of materiality. Materiality is reconceptualized as the interplay between a text's physical characteristics and its signifying strategies, a move that entwines instantiation and signification at the outset. This definition opens the possibility of considering texts as embodied entities while still maintaining a central focus on interpretation. It makes materiality an emergent property, so that it cannot be specified in advance, as if it were a pre-given entity. Rather, materiality is open to debate and interpretation, ensuring that discussions about the text's "meaning" will also take into account its physical specificity as well.

   Scott Rettberg - 25.03.2011 - 21:11

5. Gamely Interstitial: Narrative, Excess, and Artifactual Interstanding

   Moulthrop's 1999 Cybermountain keynote, delivered in a MOO online, addresses connections between games, comics, visual narratives, and contemporary web-based and hypertext fictions, emerging from postmodernist media and literary landscape.

   Scott Rettberg - 26.03.2011 - 10:49

6. The ppg256 Series of Minimal Poetry Generators

   I discuss the four Perl poetry generators I have developed in the ppg256 series. My discussion of each program begins with the entire 256 characters of code and continues with an explication of this code, a description of aspects of my development process, and a discussion of how my thinking about computation and poetry developed during that process. In writing these programs, I came to understand more about the importance of framing to the reception of texts as poems, about how computational poetic concepts of part of speech might differ from established linguistic ones, about morphological and syntactical variability, and about how to usefully think about possible texts as being drawn from a probability distribution.

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   Scott Rettberg - 26.03.2011 - 17:39

7. All Together Now: Collective Knowledge, Collective. Narratives, and Architectures of Participation

   This essay is an exploration of the history and methodologies of collective narrative projects, and their relationship to collective knowledge projects and methodologies. By examining different forms of conscious, contributory, and unwitting participation, the essay attempts to develop a richer understanding of successful large-scale collaborative projects. The essay then examines large-scale architectures of participation in Wikipedia and Flickr to extrapolate from those observations potential methodologies for the creation of collective narratives.

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   Scott Rettberg - 26.03.2011 - 18:08

8. Nordic electronic literature. Tradition, Archiving, and Cultural Valuation

   Nordic electronic literature. Tradition, Archiving, and Cultural Valuation

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.03.2011 - 13:53

9. Når litteratur går fra papir til skjerm

   Når litteratur går fra papir til skjerm

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.03.2011 - 13:56

10. Skrift/bilde/lyd

    Hvordan kan man arbeide analytisk med tekster som består av både skrift, bilder og grafikk - og iblant også av lyd, video og animasjon? Dette er et spørsmål som stilles med økende kraft og hyppighet i klasserom, i lærerutdanning og på forskerseminarer. Sammensatte - eller multimodale - tekster er på kunnskapssamfunnets dagsorden. Det har blitt påtrengende viktig å finne ut hvordan slike tekster faktisk virker. I denne boka tilbys svar fra ledende forskere på feltet. I elleve kapitler gjennomgås en rekke ulike tekstsjangre; fra turistbrosjyrer og kart via nettspill og digitale reiseguider til spillefilmer og visualisert skjønnlitteratur. Ulike teksttyper krever ulike tilnærminger og ulike analytiske målsettinger. Men felles for alle bokas kapitler er fokuset på samspillet mellom de ulike meningsressursene som tekstene er sammensatt av. Boka henvender seg primært til forskere og studenter som arbeider analytisk med sammensatte tekster. Ikke minst vil studenter i siste fase av lærerutdanningen ha glede av bokas rike tilbud av analyseeksempler og av dens teori- og metodegjennomganger.  (Kilde: Høyskoleforlaget)

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 27.03.2011 - 14:01

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