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1. Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia

   Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 10:54

2. A Response to Twelve Blue by Michael Joyce

   A Response to Twelve Blue by Michael Joyce

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.03.2011 - 11:29

3. "Of Dolls and Monsters": An Interview with Shelley Jackson

   "Of Dolls and Monsters": An Interview with Shelley Jackson

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 20:09

4. False Pretenses, Parasites, and Monsters

   A meditation on parasites and montrosity in American novels and hypertext fictions.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.03.2011 - 15:57

5. Wreader's Digest - How To Appreciate Hyperfiction

   Compared to its age - or youth - hyperfiction is a rather well-theorized genre. Hyperfiction-criticism either praises its subject as evolved print-text and better realization of contemporary literary theory - or deplore its - allegedly - low literary quality. What is missing, however, are in-depth readings of digital fiction that deemphasize theory and try to appreciate this new genre for what it has to offer.

   In this "paper", I will read two hyperfictions that are not among the two or three canonized texts that are relatively well-known and often-quoted. Both John McDaid's Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse and Sarah Smith's King of Space deal with central issues of hypertext-theory - in content as well as formally. They are about agency and sense-making, ironically deconstructing mainstream theory's claims that digital, hyperlinked texts activate readers into a de-facto author-position. They are also representations of contemporary life that may be difficult to read at first but also make strangely adequate and enjoyable texts for today's readers. (Source: abstract in journal)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.11.2011 - 12:01

6. Autofiction on Screen: Self-representation of an Egyptian ‘Spinster’ in a Literary Blog

   In this paper the blog Yawmiyyat 3nis [Diary of a Spinster] written by the Egyptian 3Abeer Sulayman [Abeer Soliman] is conceived as a form of autofiction. In fact, two aspects of online writing are of great importance for Egyptian bloggers. Firstly, blogging has given the Egyptian young people the possibility of sharing their innermost feelings and daily frustration without the fear of identification and humiliation due to their relative anonymity. Secondly, the computer operates as a projective device that allows users to discover and create different versions of themselves (Sorapure, 2003). Thus, blog writing facilitates autobiographic writing but at the same time turns daily life into fiction. The analysis of Abeer Soliman’s blog aims to show how the computer has an impact on the way diaries are written. On a structural level, I will highlight the presence of distinct literary features that are enhanced by the medium: the use of visual/audio components, the interaction with readers, and the presence of links. All these elements are essential for the understanding of Abeer’s self-representation.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 23.11.2012 - 13:36

7. Reorienting Narrative: E-lit as Psychogeography

   Illya Szilak interviews J. R. Carpenter in her on-going series of posts on E-Lit for Huffington Post Books.

   J. R. Carpenter - 08.07.2013 - 11:54

8. In absentia maps Mile End stories

   In absentia maps Mile End stories

   J. R. Carpenter - 19.08.2013 - 12:54

9. Tech-TOC: Complex Temporalities in Living and Technical Beings

   Tech-TOC: Complex Temporalities in Living and Technical Beings

   Steve Tomasula - 10.01.2016 - 21:36

10. Narrative Affect in William Gillespie's Keyhole Factory and Morpheus: Biblionaut, or, Post-Digital Fiction for the Programming Era

    Programmable computation is radically transforming the contemporary media ecology. What is literature's future in this emergent Programming Era? What happens to reading when the affective, performative power of executable code begins to provide the predominant model for creative language use? Critics have raised concerns about models of affective communication and the challenges a-semantic affects present to interpretive practices. In response, this essay explores links between electronic literature, affect theory, and materialist aesthetics in two works by experimental writer and publisher William Gillespie.

    Focusing on the post-digital novel Keyhole Factory and the electronic speculative fiction Morpheus: Bilblionaut, it proposes that: first, tracing tropes of code as affective transmissions allows for more robust readings of technomodernist texts and, second, examining non-linguistic affect and its articulation within constraint-based narrative forms suggests possibilities for developing an affective hermeneutics.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 02.06.2016 - 11:15

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