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1. Avatars of Story

   Traces the transformation of storytelling in the digital age. Since its inception, narratology has developed primarily as an investigation of literary narrative fiction. Linguists, folklorists, psychologists, and sociologists have expanded the inquiry toward oral storytelling, but narratology remains primarily concerned with language-supported stories. In Avatars of Story, Marie-Laure Ryan moves beyond literary works to examine other media, especially electronic narrative forms. By grappling with semiotic media other than language and technology other than print, she reveals how story, a form of meaning that transcends cultures and media, achieves diversity by presenting itself under multiple avatars.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 09:00

2. Hypertext and the Female Imaginary

   from the publisher: Explores the use of hypertext in postmodern electronic and film media by women In Hypertext and the Female Imaginary, Jaishree K. Odin reveals how media that use hypertextual strategies of narrative fragmentation provocatively engage questions of gender or cultural difference. Odin addresses hypertext on two levels: as an artistic technique in electronic or film narratives and as a metaphor for describing the complexity of postmodernism in which different cultures, discourses, and media are in continual interaction with one another. Investigating the work of Trinh T. Minh-ha, Judy Malloy, Shelley Jackson, Stephanie Strickland, and M. D. Coverly, Odin demonstrates how these writers apply hypertextual strategies to subversively convey difference. Through her readings of various transformative hypertext narratives by women writers/artists, she pursues the question of what constitutes empowering descriptions of the world in a technology-mediated culture where the dominant discourse is turning everything into the same.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 09:19

3. Ex-foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path

   In Ex-foliations, Terry Harpold investigates paradoxes of reading’s backward glances in the theory and literature of the digital field. In original analyses of Vannevar Bush’s Memex and Ted Nelson’s Xanadu, and in innovative readings of early hypertext fictions by Michael Joyce and Shelley Jackson, Harpold asserts that we should return to these landmarks of new media scholarship with newly focused attention on questions of media obsolescence, changing user interface designs, and the mutability of reading. In these reading machines, Harpold proposes, we may detect traits of an unreadable surface—the real limit of the machines’ operations and of the reader’s memories—on which text and image are projected in the late age of print. (Source: Publisher's website.)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 09:48

4. Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations

   From the publisher: How to interpret and critique digital arts, in theory and in practice Digital Art and Meaning offers close readings of varied examples from genres of digital art, including kinetic concrete poetry, computer-generated text, interactive installation, mapping art, and information sculpture. Roberto Simanowski combines these illuminating explanations with a theoretical discussion employing art philosophy and history to achieve a deeper understanding of each example of digital art and of the genre as a whole.

   (Source: University of Minnesota Press catalog description)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 10:25

5. Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia

   Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 10:54

6. Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-generating Mechanisms

   Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-generating Mechanisms

   Patricia Tomaszek - 24.02.2011 - 11:26

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

   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.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 24.02.2011 - 11:32

8. New Media Poetics: As We May Think/How to Write

   New Media Poetics: As We May Think/How to Write

   Patricia Tomaszek - 24.02.2011 - 11:38

9. Image and Text in Hypermedia Literature: The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot

   A detailed reading of the relations between image, text, and linkage in Strickland's hypermedia ballad.

   Scott Rettberg - 24.02.2011 - 11:39

10. The Oulipo: Constraints and Collaboration

    The Oulipo: Constraints and Collaboration

    Patricia Tomaszek - 24.02.2011 - 11:41

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