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1. For Thee: A Response to Alice Bell

   In an essay that responds to Alice Bell's book The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Stuart Moulthrop uses the lessons of hypertext as both an analogy and an explanation for why hypertext and its criticism will stay in a "niche" - and why, despite Bell's concern, that's not such a bad thing. As the response of an author to his critic, addressed to "thee," "implicitly dragging her into the niche with me," this review also dramatizes the very productivity of such specialized, nodal encounters.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 03.02.2011 - 11:01

2. The Strategy of Digital Modernism: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota

   from Project MUSE: A prominent strategy in some of the most innovative electronic literature online is the appropriation and adaptation of literary modernism, what I call “digital modernism.” This essay introduces digital modernism by examining a work that exemplifies it: Dakota by Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries. I read this Flash-based work in relation to its literary inspiration: the authors claim that Dakota is “based on a close reading of Ezra Pound's Cantos part I and part II.” The authorial framework claims modernism’s cultural capital for electronic literature and encourages close reading of its text, but the work’s formal presentation of speeding, flashing text challenges such efforts. Reading Dakota as it reads Pound’s first two cantos exposes how modernism serves contemporary, digital literature by providing a model of how to “MAKE IT NEW” by renovating a literary past.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.02.2011 - 10:27

3. A [S]creed for Digital Fiction

   An international group of digital-fiction scholars proposes a platform of critical principles, seeking to build the foundation for a truly "digital" approach to literary study. Published in ebr's electropoetics thread.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.02.2011 - 22:31

4. Don't Believe the Hype: Rereading Michael Joyce's Afternoon and Twelve Blue

   Don't Believe the Hype: Rereading Michael Joyce's Afternoon and Twelve Blue

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 11.03.2011 - 12:40

5. "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

6. Editor's Introduction: Reconfiguring Place and Space in New Media Writing

   This installment of the Iowa Review Web explores the function of place and space in recent new media writing. Each of the four interviews concern works that in some way attempt to reconfigure our understanding of the relationship between space and storytelling. Each of the primary works discussed in these interviews also pushes space in another sense, in that each attempts to explore a new "possibility space" on the boundary between different forms and fields of multimedia experience: between story and game, between game and drama, between literature and conceptual art, between game and performance. The introduction contextualizes the narrative function of space in a number of recent works of electronic literature.

   Scott Rettberg - 21.05.2011 - 09:53

7. Connecting Memories: Contextualizing Creative Research Practice

   Connecting Memories: Contextualizing Creative Research Practice

   Scott Rettberg - 17.06.2011 - 12:09

8. Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext

   Narrative Subjects Meet Their Limits: John Barth's "Click" and the Remediation of Hypertext

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.07.2011 - 16:37

9. Aesthetics and Literature: A Problematic Relation?

   The paper argues that there is a proper for literature within aesthetics but that care must be taken in identifying just what the relation is. In characterising aestehtic pleasure associating with literature it is all too easy to fall into reductive accounts, for example, of literature of merely "fine writing". Bellelettrist or formalistic accounts of literature are rejected, as are to other kinds of reduction, to pure meaning properties and to a kind of narrative realism. The idea is developed that literature - both poetry and prose fiction - invites its own distinctive kind of aesthetic appreciation which far from being at odds with critical practice, in fact chimes well with it.  

   Kristina Gulvik Nilsen - 18.10.2011 - 14:05

10. Web 2.0 Storytelling: Emergence of a New Genre

    Overview of dozens of examples of what the authors call "Web 2.0 Storytelling" - narratives told on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 01.11.2011 - 13:48

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