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1. Hypertextual Criticism: Comparative Readings of Three Web Hypertexts About Literature and Film

   Hypertextual Criticism: Comparative Readings of Three Web Hypertexts About Literature and Film

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.10.2011 - 22:18

2. Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era

   Hypertext, email, word-processing: electronic technologies have revolutionized the way we write language. How does language on screen work differently from language on the page? What new literacy skills are needed and how do we teach them? Page to Screencollects some of the best contemporary thinkers in the fields of literacy and technology to discuss the impacts of new media on language. The contributors analyze the potential of new forms of text, the increased emphasis on visual representation, new forms of rhetoric, learning in the age of global communication networks and new approaches to storytelling. Timely and important, this collection tackles important questions about the future of language and the way we use and teach it. (Source: book blurb)

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.10.2011 - 22:41

3. Think Again: Artificial Intelligence, Television, and Video

   Discussion of how "thought" is visualized in television, computers, and video art.  The importance of the proliferation of new forms of inhuman visuality and artificial intelligence to new electronic art.

   Joe Milutis - 21.01.2012 - 02:48

4. Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology

   Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 16.02.2012 - 20:51

5. A poetics

   This rich collection is far more than an important work of criticism by an extraordinary poet; it is a poetic intervention into criticism. "Artifice of Absorption," a key essay, is written in verse, and its structures and rhythms initiate the reader into the strength and complexity of the argument. In a wild variety of topics, polemic, and styles, Bernstein surveys the current poetry scene and addresses many of the hot issues of poststructuralist literary theory. "Poetics is the continuation of poetry by other means," he writes. What role should poetics play in contemporary culture? Bernstein finds the answer in dissent, not merely in argument but in form--a poetic language that resists being easily absorbed into the conventions of our culture.

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.03.2012 - 15:02

6. Oulipo: a primer of potential literature

   This is an amazing anthology of writings by members of the group known as Oulipo, including, among others, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, and Raymond Queneau. Put simply, this group, which was founded in Paris in 1960, approaches creative writing in a way that still has yet to make its impact in the United States and its creative writing programs.

   Rather than inspiration, rather than experience, rather than self-expression, the Oulipians viewed imaginative writing as an exercise dominated by what they called "constraints." Quite commonly, they would attempt to write stories, for instance, in which strict rules had to be imposed and followed (for example, Georges Perec's notorious novel A Void, which was written without the use of the letter "e").

    While a major contribution to literary theory, Oulipo is perhaps most distinguished as an indispensable guide to writers.

   (Source: Dalkey Archive Press catalog.)

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 20.03.2012 - 16:11

7. Bookend; www.claptrap.com

   Bookend; www.claptrap.com

   Patricia Tomaszek - 29.04.2012 - 15:17

8. Stalking the paratext: speculations on hypertext links as a second order text

   n the popular conception of hypertext as nonlinear writing, primary emphasis typically falls on the construction, character, and quantity of constituent lexias that comprise any given hypertext. This paper, however, will focus on what the text would reveal if an ordered collection were made of the links emerging from the main (first order) text. Such a collection, as a second order text or parallel text, which I propose to call the parutext, comprises the layer- world of links, of intertextual descriptors that could be subjectcd to cluster analyses that reveal aspects of cohesion, breadth, and other speculative characteristics of the first order text. 

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.06.2012 - 14:45

9. Queen Bees and the Hum of the Hive An Overview of Feminist Hypertext's Subversive Honeycombings

   Queen Bees and the Hum of the Hive An Overview of Feminist Hypertext's Subversive Honeycombings

   Carolyn Guertin - 20.06.2012 - 22:48

10. Performances Of Writing In The Age Of Digital Transliteration

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    This paper addresses and attempts a reconfiguration of the theory and practice of writing (and/or language art) in networked and programmable media (hereafter, in this abstract, abbreviated as "npm").

    A number of problems provoke the paper's arguments, problems and concerns which arise from the current practice of language art in npm :

    - the problematic (non-)engagement of language artists (poets) with text-making in npm

    - the (non-)engagement of visual, cinematic, audio-visual artists (especially those who are currently working in npm) with practicing language artists

    - the identification of those characteristic of textuality which are proper to npm (this involves a critique of hypertext, when hypertext is seen as a definitive or determinative genre in npm ) and the relationship of these characteristics to demonstrable language art practice

    - the (mis-)assimilation by established literary culture of rhetorical technologies which are emergent in npm.

    Thus, while the paper's arguments are theoretical or expository, there is also an underlying agenda, which might be expressed in a more polemical fashion:

    Jill Walker Rettberg - 15.10.2012 - 14:43

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