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  1. Canonizing Hypertext: Explorations and Constructions

    from the publisher: Description This innovative monograph focuses on a contemporary form of computer-based literature called 'literary hypertext', a digital, interactive, communicative form of new media writing. Canonizing Hypertext combines theoretical and hermeneutic investigations with empirical research into the motivational and pedagogic possibilities of this form of literature. It focuses on key questions for literary scholars and teachers: How can literature be taught in such a way as to make it relevant for an increasingly hypermedia-oriented readership? How can the rapidly evolving new media be integrated into curricula that still seek to transmit ‘traditional’ literary competence? How can the notion of literary competence be broadened to take into account these current trends? This study, which argues for hypertext’s integration in the literary canon, offers a critical overview of developments in hypertext theory, an exemplary hypertext canon and an evaluation of possible classroom applications.
    Table of Contents
    Introduction
    1. Hypertextual Ontologies
    2. Hypertext and the Question of Canonicity

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.02.2011 - 16:34

  2. 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

  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. Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia

    Unraveling the Tapestry of Califia

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 10:54

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Destination Unknown: Experiments in the Network Novel

    PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts & Sciences : English & Comparative Literature, 2003.

    Advisor: Dr. Thomas LeClair

    Scott Rettberg - 26.02.2011 - 16:15

  8. Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing

    From the publisher:

    This second edition of Jay David Bolter's classic text expands on the objectives of the original volume, illustrating the relationship of print to new media, and examining how hypertext and other forms of electronic writing refashion or "remediate" the forms and genres of print. Reflecting the dynamic changes in electronic technology since the first edition, this revision incorporates the Web and other current standards of electronic writing. As a text for students in composition, new technologies, information studies, and related areas, this volume provides a unique examination of the computer as a technology for reading and writing.

    Original publication date: 1991, published by Laurence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 28.02.2011 - 11:48

  9. Principles of Spatialization in Text and Hypertext

    Principles of Spatialization in Text and Hypertext

    Patricia Tomaszek - 05.03.2011 - 21:48

  10. A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

    A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 10.03.2011 - 10:55

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