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  1. Early Authors of E-Literature, Platforms of the Past

    A detailed discussion of the exhibit “Early Authors of Electronic Literature: The Eastgate School, Voyager Artists, and Independent Productions” (now installed at the University of Washington). Grigar looks specifically at the major technological shifts in affordances and constraints provided by early computer interfaces and the ways in which e-literature writers from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s worked with and against these interfaces. For example, she discusses the command-line interface of the Apple IIe – which was released in 1983 – as an example of an interface that exemplifies an ideology wholly different from the now dominant Graphic User Interface. Thus, the command-line interface also makes possible entirely different texts and entirely different modes of thinking/creating such as that exemplified by bp Nichols' “First Screening” from 1984.

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.10.2011 - 09:19

  2. Friending the Past: The Sense of History and Social Computing

    Reflecting on the relation between the media ages of orality, writing, and digital networking, Liu asks the question: what happens today to the “sense of history” that was the glory of the high age of print? In particular, what does the age of social computing—social networking, blogs, Twitter, etc.—have in common with prior ages in which the experience of sociality was deeply vested in a shared sense of history? Liu focuses on a comparison of nineteenth-century historicism and contemporary Web 2.0, and concludes by touching on the RoSE Research-oriented Social Environment that the Transliteracies Project he directs has been building to model past bibliographical resources as a social network. (Source: author's abstract)

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.10.2011 - 13:05

  3. Hypertextual Rhythms (The Momentary Advantage of Our Awkwardness)

    Michael Joyce's paper, "Hypertextual Rhythms (The Momentary Advantage of Our Awkwardness)," addresses the historical moment of recent hypertext fiction. He will suggest that the common perception of hypertext as an awkward and opaque mode of discourse may actually make it easier to grasp its historical significance. Before the novelty of the electronic medium fades, and electronic text assumes the transparency that printed text now has, we may better understand it as a distinct representational form.

    Joyce presented this paper as part of a special session, "Hypertext, Hypermedia: Defining a Fictional Form," at the 1992 MLA Convention. The panel was chaired by Terence Harpold. Other panelists included pioneering hypertext authors: Carolyn Guyer, Judy Malloy, and Stuart Moultrhop.

    (Source: Humanist Archives Vol. 6 : 6.0338 Hypertext at MLA)

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 01.01.2012 - 13:30

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Screening a Digital Visual Poetics

    Screening a Digital Visual Poetics

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 12.02.2012 - 23:27

  7. Modernisms: A Literary Guide

    The recent enthusiasm for things postmodern has often produced a caricature of Modernism as monolithic and reactionary. Peter Nicholls argues instead that the distinctive feature of Modernism is its diversity. Through a lively analysis of each of Modernism's main literary movements, he explores the connections between the new stylistic developments and the shifting politics of gender and authority.

    Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.03.2012 - 15:33

  8. Further, Reading

    English version of article published in Vagant 4/2011 as "E-Lit. Som Litt.-Vit"

    The final column in the "Platform 2" series, offering a survey of important monographs about electronic liiterature.

    Scott Rettberg - 24.03.2012 - 10:35

  9. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History

    In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary canon of a few hundred texts, Moretti offers charts, maps and time lines, developing the idea of “distant reading” into a full-blown experiment in literary historiography, in which the canon disappears into the larger literary system. Charting entire genres—the epistolary, the gothic, and the historical novel—as well as the literary output of countries such as Japan, Italy, Spain, and Nigeria, he shows how literary history looks significantly different from what is commonly supposed and how the concept of aesthetic form can be radically redefined.

    (Source: Verso online catalog.)

    Eric Dean Rasmussen - 18.04.2012 - 11:24

  10. Bookend; www.claptrap.com

    Bookend; www.claptrap.com

    Patricia Tomaszek - 29.04.2012 - 15:17

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