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1. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature

   Cybertext explores the aesthetics and the textual dynamics of digital literature and its many diverse genres such as hypertext fiction, computer games, computer generated poetry and prose, and collaborative Internet texts such as MUDs. However, instead of insisting on the uniqueness and newness of "electronic writing" or "interactive fiction" (phrases which mean very little) the author situates these new literary forms within the larger and much older field of "ergodic" literature, from the ancient Chinese I Ching to the literary experiments of the OuLiPo. These are open, dynamic texts where the reader must perform specific actions to generate a literary sequence, which may vary for every reading. Aarseth constructs a theoretical model that describes how these literary forms are different from each other, and demonstrates how the widely assumed divide between paper texts and electronic texts breaks down under careful analysis.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 21.09.2010 - 10:59

2. Beyond Taxonomy: Digital Poetics and the Problem of Reading

   Beyond Taxonomy: Digital Poetics and the Problem of Reading

   Patricia Tomaszek - 21.09.2010 - 11:57

3. Writing Machines

   Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N. Katherine Hayles uses the autobiographical persona of Kaye to explore how literature has transformed itself from inscriptions rendered as the flat durable marks of print to the dynamic images of CRT screens, from verbal texts to the diverse sensory modalities of multimedia works, from books to technotexts.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.02.2011 - 20:34

4. Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary

   Hayles’s book is designed to help electronic literature move into the classroom. Her systematic survey of the field addresses its major genres, the challenges it poses to traditional literary theory, and the complex and compelling issues at stake. She develops a theoretical framework for understanding how electronic literature both draws on the print tradition and requires new reading and interpretive strategies. Grounding her approach in the evolutionary dynamic between humans and technology, Hayles argues that neither the body nor the machine should be given absolute theoretical priority. Rather, she focuses on the interconnections between embodied writers and users and the intelligent machines that perform electronic texts.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.02.2011 - 20:58

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. The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

   The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.03.2011 - 10:52

7. Cybertext Yearbook 2010

   In this volume we wil continue to expand the Ergodic History theme started in the Yearbook 2006, with five articles dealing with the Polish literary history. In addition we have articles on various cybertextual themes.

   (Source: Cybertext Yearbook Database).

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 07.04.2011 - 11:24

8. Uncreative Writing

   Uncreative Writing

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 16.09.2011 - 15:20

9. Invisible Rendezvous: Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing

   Invisible Rendezvous: Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 15.01.2012 - 12:25

10. Contrasts and Convergences of Electronic Literature

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    Presented at the 2012 MLA Convention as part of the panel "730. New Media Narratives and Old Prose Fiction," arranged by the MLA's Division on Prose Fiction. 

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 17.01.2012 - 11:54

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