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  1. A Child's Game Confused

    This is a hypertextual essay about and around a cycle of poems by Juliet Ann Martin: oooxxxooo. It's an interpretation of the poems, a reading. It's also about playing with the medium and with writing. The essay speaks its own voice, linking almost only to itself, always beside the poems it speaks of. You may hear voices of theorists behind these words, but they are implicit, a background rather than names to be paraded

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.03.2011 - 23:45

  2. Close Reading in the Realm of Static and Dynamic Texts

    Review and discussion of Reading Digital Literature at Brown University, organized by Roberto Simanowski (Brown University and Dichtung Digital) October 4-7, 2007.

    Patricia Tomaszek - 11.11.2011 - 15:28

  3. On Hypertext Criticism

    On Hypertext Criticism

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 16.11.2011 - 12:36

  4. New Directions in Digital Poetry: A Review

    New Directions in Digital Poetry: A Review

    Patricia Tomaszek - 12.07.2012 - 15:13

  5. Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory, A Review

    Cybertext Poetics: The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory, A Review

    Patricia Tomaszek - 09.09.2012 - 22:21

  6. The E-ssense of Literature

    Many works of electronic literature use text generation algorithms or interactive interfaces to present the reader with a different text upon each reading. Such variable texts can be difficult to analyze and discuss because it can be prohibitively difficult to take into account all possible permutations. The standard critical methodology for approaching these texts is to discuss excerpts from different readings, perhaps comparing passages that involve alternative renderings of the same textual content. While this approach can convey a general sense of the work and its possibilities for variation, it usually doesn't allow a thorough treatment of a complex work's structural framework. This essay presents a method for analyzing a work's source code to define the most important constant and variable properties of its constituent elements. It then applies the method to a generated electronic poem, "Snaps," by Dirk Hine. The source structure thus defined provides a springboard for critical interpretation of the work.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.10.2012 - 21:12

  7. Generative Visual Renku: Poetic Multimedia Semantics with the GRIOT System

    A polymorphic poem (polypoem) is a generative digital artwork that is constructed differently upon each instantiation, but can be meaningfully constrained according to aspects such as theme, metaphor, affect, and discourse structure. The Generative Visual Renku project presents a new form of concrete polymorphic poetry inspired by Japanese renku poetry, iconicity of Chinese character forms, and generative models from contemporary art. Calligraphic iconic illustrations are conjoined by the GRIOT system into a fanciful topography articulating the nuanced interplay between organic (natural or hand-created) and modular (mass-produced or consumerist) artifacts that saturate our lives. GRIOT, which is a system for composing generative and interactive narrative and poetic works, is used to semantically constrain generated output both visually and conceptually. On the one hand, this project extends the GRIOT architecture's support for composing graphics and has resulted in new theory to provide cognitive and semiotic groundings for the extension.

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 09.10.2012 - 21:20

  8. Review of Williams's How to be an Intellectual

    In this review of How to Be an Intellectual: Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University, Christopher Findeisen analyzes Jeffrey J. Williams’s assessment of higher education in the United States. Linking the decline of funding for universities and colleges, rising student debt, the exploitation of academic labor, and the digital humanities, the review examines the omission of accounts of “the not-so-remarkable everyperson academic, the untenured, the up-and-comers, and the downtrodden.

    (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/properly)

    Malene Fonnes - 12.09.2017 - 15:03

  9. “Persist in Folly”: Review of Mark Greif, The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973

    Afterthoughts on the end of the sixties, the death of the author, the rise of Theory and the fall of humanism.

    Source: Author's abstract

    Ana Castello - 16.10.2017 - 16:36

  10. The Primacy of the Object

    In his review of Martin Paul Eve’s Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno, Julius Greve situates this new book on Pynchon within the upheavals produced by speculative realism and contemporary discourses on materialism. In doing so, Greve reminds us of what was always already the case: the literary-philosophical relevance of Pynchon, which turns out to be all the more inescapable in contemporary political climates.

    Source: Author's abstract

    Ana Castello - 16.10.2017 - 17:41

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