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Love and Loss in Robert Kendall's "A Life Set for Two"
The sixth chapter in Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media (2018) about Robert Kendall's narrative poem, A Life Set for Two, contains Dene Grigar's essay, entitled "Love and Loss in Robert Kendall's A Life Set for Two.
The essay is descriptive and takes the reader through the story, like a "walkthrough". Throughout the text there is very detailed descriptions of how the different scenes look and what's happening in the scene, making it possible for the reader to imagine the setting the story takes place in. It also allows for more immersion. As the users of A Life Set For Two can interact with the work by clicking through different options along the story, Dene Grigar also explains what happens when clicking these as she progress through the story. Along with this the essay also provides general information about the production of the work, the essay also analyzes the poem from the perspective of the themes of love and loss.
Ewan Matthews - 06.06.2018 - 18:52
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Introduction to Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media Volume 1
This work is an introduction to the book Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media. It has three parts: an introductory section, “Expanding the Pathfinders Methodology: Capturing Live Stream Traversals & Social Media Conversations”, and “About the Electronic Literature Lab and Its Library of Electronic Media.” The introductory section gives a brief overview of the texts selected for the project, the methods of documentation, and the research team. “Expanding the Pathfinders Methodology” details the ways in which Grigar and Moulthrop’s Pathfinders methodology was extended for this project. The extended methodology includes real-time streaming of Traversals and audience engagement through social media. “About the Electronic Literature Lab and Its Library of Electronic Media” gives an overview of the lab and how it came to be. The ELL houses obsolete hardware and software to facilitate access to born digital works so that they can be experienced in the format in which they were produced.
Robyn Stobbs - 06.06.2018 - 18:54
