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  Writing for the New Millennium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Electronic authors John Cayley, Judy Malloy, and Jim Rosenberg have given similar exhibitions at such places as the Guggenheim Museum Soho in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Royal Festival Hall in London, and several university galleries.
I had begun working in the electronic medium assuming that I was the only writer inspired (or deranged) enough to do so, but I gradually became aware of other kindred spirits, some of whom--like William Dickey, Michael Joyce, and Judy Malloy--had answered the call of the silicon muse years before I did.
Interactive electronic literature is not part of today's mainstream, but this may change as an increasing number of readers become accustomed to books on disk and more and more publishing houses venture into electronic publishing.
wordcircuits.com /kendall/essays/pw1.htm   (4260 words)

  
 First Person, Games, and the Place of Electronic Literature
Literature programs are an institutional setting for the study of textuality writ large, and even the most obscure of literary forms eventually finds a place within them.
The study of electronic literature might help us to understand what is becoming of our language and our culture as our lives are increasingly mediated by network communication.
Their ongoing efforts will determine whether electronic writing develops into a vibrant sector of the literary landscape or whether it languishes into an anomaly, an interesting but minor literary movement that developed near the end of the twentieth century and withered sometime during the dawn of the twenty-first.
www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/firstperson/traverse   (2946 words)

  
 Literature and The Internet (Trip Report), by Susana Pajares Tosca and Paola Carbone
Even though the title of the conference seems to point to a formalist interest in electronic literature, the question of form was nearly absent from the discussion.
There appeared to be a bit of a gap amongst the participants: some of them were long time "insiders" in the field of electronic literature, talking about new aspects and phenomena related to the world of digital literature.
For others, electronic literature seemed to be a new discovery or a metaphorical inspiration to talk about something else.
www.hypertextkitchen.com /Features/Paris.html   (1354 words)

  
 Reading Online - Electronic Classroom: September 1999 Exploring Literacy Column from RT
This may be due to fear of parents, community members, and other school personnel, or to their own lack of experience and background knowledge of the issues presented in the books (Bargiel et al., 1997).
The purpose of this project was to explore the potential of electronic discussion to increase students’ breadth and depth of thinking about issues in complex children's literature.
Once teachers have experienced the value of electronic discussion forums to enhance their own thinking processes about children's literature, they may be encouraged to engage their students in similar experiences.
www.readingonline.org /electronic/RT/9-99RT.html   (4116 words)

  
 Ezine
The ability of the electronic literature to hold together audio, video and textual elements which can be accessed in multiple ways makes it an effective medium for conveying the experience of minority communities which unfolds at the pressure points of the social and the political.
The main reason for this absence is of course the status of electronic literature, which currently is still on the margins of mainstream literary production, and at present almost invisible to culturally marginalised literary communities.
Several factors are responsible for the lack of broader participation by ethnic writers in the newly emerging field of electronic literature.
www.fineartforum.org /Backissues/Vol_16/faf_v16_n07/text/jaishree.html   (816 words)

  
 The Chronicle: Daily news: 09/10/2001 -- 01
Electronic literature is a nascent field of study, but it already has a prominent scholar as its advocate: Katherine Hayles, a professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles.
This summer, she led a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar that brought scholars from major universities to UCLA to discuss the future of electronic literature, hypertext, poetry, and fiction.
The only reason to go into electronic media is if you want to achieve different kinds of effects, and one of those effects is certainly ceding some measure of control to the reader.
chronicle.com /free/2001/09/2001091001t.htm   (1107 words)

  
 American and English Literature Internet Resources
Literature: Electronic Books and Journals Contains full-text fiction and non-fiction books in alphabetical order as well as sites that contain electronic texts on the internet.
Literature Webliography Contains resources for the study of literature and bibliography, library catalogs, newsgroups, periodicals, style guides, electronic books and numerous literary links.
Post-Colonial Literature form YahooHere one can find links to Emory University postcolonial studies, the Institute of postcolonial studies which is dedicated to research in postcolonialism, information on postcolonial authors and literature, and a postcolonial mailing list.
library.scsu.ctstateu.edu /litbib.html   (2908 words)

  
 Electronic Texts of Pre-modern Japanese Literature by Satoko Shimazaki
Basic information: JTI is an ongoing collaborative electronic project between the University of Virginia library and the University of Pittsburgh library based at the University of Virginia’s Electronic Text Center.
What distinguishes JTI from other electronic literature text sites is that it permits rapid word or a character searches.
Most of the emphasis is on texts of modern Japanese literature, particularly in the first half of the 20th century.
www.columbia.edu /~hds2/BIB95/00e-texts_shimazaki.htm   (3419 words)

  
 Hammer highlights collaborative effort of electronic literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The series, constructed as a sort of "electronic literature 101 class" is an introduction to the medium and the first series of its kind in Los Angeles.
It is co-sponsored by the Electronic Literature Organization, which moved to UCLA in 2001, and serves as a non-profit organization of graduate and undergraduate students from the English and Design
Collaborative literature is experimental and certainly bold in its attempt to redefine the boundaries of literature.
www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/articles.asp?id=27711   (590 words)

  
 "Electronic Democracy" by Scott London
Since the electronic town meeting may likely be the political vehicle of tomorrow, care must be taken to insure that it is developed more as a forum for genuine public dialogue than as a hi-tech Gallup poll for measuring the shifting currents of popular opinion.
While electronic citizen feedback is only recommended as advisory by some theorists, a considerable number of advocates actually propose a constitutional amendment to institutionalize electronic referenda and even direct popular democracy.
Santa Barbara conducted a similar electronic town meeting in the spring of 1990 - when the city was in its fifth drought year - to obtain citizen input on the water crisis.
www.scottlondon.com /reports/ed.html   (9642 words)

  
 Arts Literature Electronic Text Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Electronic Library of the Bath House - Primary historical texts and relevant secondary sources pertaining to the bizarre Roman Emperor Elagabalus and related subjects.
Electronic Texts and Publishing - Links to electronic texts, electronic text archives, electronic publishers and booksellers, compiled by the Library of Congress.
The Spectator Text Project at the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities - An interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general.
www.linkfinding.com /Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_Archives   (1069 words)

  
 Eastgate: electronic reading
Indeed, much of the literary establishment still fears electronic reading and worries that fine writing is somehow tied to the technology of chopped trees and carbon ink.
There is no longer a credible argument against electronic books, and the arguments in their favor are clear, compelling, and overwhelming.
The essence of an electronic book may be as fixed as if it were cast in lead, or it may be as volatile as live performance or dinner conversation: electronic writing adapts to our needs, while print adapts to the needs of mass production.
www.eastgate.com /HypertextNow/archives/Electronic.html   (1163 words)

  
 E Ink
But unlike the electronic books touted by digital pundits a couple of years ago there will be no need to scroll through the text and no computerized screen to read.
The Open eBook Forum (OeBF) is an association of commercial developers of electronic book technology who are establishing standards and specifications for the development and adoption of electronic book technology.
Teleread is an organization that provides information and resources related to electronic book technology, and promotes the adoption and use of electronic book technology.
www.acfnewsource.org /science/e_ink.html   (578 words)

  
 Electronic Literature Organization - Directory
The Electronic Literature Directory is a unique and valuable resource for readers and writers of digital texts.
The Preservation, Archiving, and Dissemination of Electronic Literature.
ELO acknowledges the support of our global sponsor, the Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation for their generous support of the Electronic Literature Directory project.
www.eliterature.org /dir   (320 words)

  
 Judy Malloy: Electronic Literature
Electronic fiction forms will include "narrabases" (nonsequential novels that rely on large computer databases); "narrative data structures" that elegantly organize fictional information on eye-pleasing computer screens; complex narrative investigations based on the adventure story model developed in computer games; and stories told collaboratively by groups of writers in online communities.
In contrast, literature published online, in electronic form, can be accessed and read by anyone with a computer and modem, and it does not require continual updating.
Electronic books will seduce us on rainy afternoons with their ability to connect to our own minds and their musical instrument like responsiveness.
www.well.com /user/jmalloy/future.html   (2755 words)

  
 Reference.com/Web Directory/Top/Arts/Literature
Electronic Literature Directory - A comprehensive database of listings for electronic works, their authors, and their publishers.
Literature section includes brief analyses of characters, themes and plots.
The Electronic Labyrinth - Both utilizes and focuses upon the medium of hypertext as it relates to literature and its concrete manifestations--from palimpsests to mechanically printed books to CD-ROMs -- throughout history to the present, with speculation on the future.
www.reference.com /Dir/Arts/Literature   (323 words)

  
 European Literature - Electronic Texts
If you put up an electronic text, find a collection that's not listed here, or find changes in one of the collections please let me know.
Dutch literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.
Literatur im Netz and Literaturwelt have descriptive entries for contemporary literature published on the Web and for literary journals on the Web.
www.lib.virginia.edu /wess/etexts.html   (1093 words)

  
 American Studies @ The University of Virginia
Many people would not classify non-fiction as literature, and perhaps that is the case for some of these works.
Dailies, weeklies, and monthlies are cornucopias of literature which contain a variety of different story formats--from front page news stories to editorials.
JSTOR allows its users to access e-text copies (both recent and archived) of 48 journals dealing with topics in "literature and language." As with Infotrac, this site is fee based, but a large number of public accesss libraries as well as some high schools subscribe to this webservice.
xroads.virginia.edu /~YP/yplitgen.html   (1070 words)

  
 O'Keefe Library-Best Information on the Net - English Resources
--The Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts is a collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
Electronic Literature Foundation(ELF)--produces advanced electronic texts to be used by students, scholars, and admirers of literature.
SCETI--Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image from the University of Pennsylvania provides the scholarly community with web access to virtual facsimiles of original texts, documents, and sources from Penn's collections.
library.sau.edu /bestinfo/Majors/english/engfull.htm   (465 words)

  
 Searchalot Directory for Top/Arts/Literature/Electronic_Text_Archives
A very large selection of electronic online texts by a wide variety of authors from a wide range of literature; many works can also be downloaded in.zip file-format.
Links to electronic texts, electronic text archives, electronic publishers and booksellers, compiled by the Library of Congress.
A private nonprofit project to convert into electronic format and publish the Armenian literary heritage; provide as much information on Armenian culture, history, religion and also on the Armenian Genocide in Turkey, and Artsakh (Nagorno - Karabakh Republic) as possible; and help young authors to publish and promote their works on the Internet.
www.searchalot.com /Top/Arts/Literature/ElectronicTextArchives   (711 words)

  
 Playing the Past: Conference Information: CFP
While some scholars have focused more closely on the way that media forms conflict and connect, this conference will examine the ways in which new media forms reconfigure and recontextualize narratives from older media while at the same time suggesting a way of relating to the past through the media of the present.
Games and electronic literature approach this general topic in a variety of ways, from outright revisionist history to more subtle stylistic pastiche.
The portrayal of myth in Electronic Literature, including myths of closed texts.
www.academic-gamers.org /gsg/cfp.shtml   (697 words)

  
 Electronic Literature Organization
To facilitate and promote the writing, publishing, and reading of literature in electronic media.
It comes with two years of support, three workshops with world-class writers, four other courses at Brown of your choice, and a nice MFA at the end.
Electronic Literature Collection: Submissions accepted until Jan 31, 2006
www.eliterature.org   (859 words)

  
 The Electronic Labyrinth Home Page
The Electronic Labyrinth is a study of the implications of hypertext for creative writers looking to move beyond traditional notions of linearity.
This context provides a means of re-evaluating the concept of the book in the age of electronic text.
The Electronic Labyrinth presents the results of a research project mostly undertaken in 1993.
www3.iath.virginia.edu /elab   (526 words)

  
 Nature Debates: E-optimism on a tide of red ink
Ontologies can also be used to tag literature automatically, and will be particularly useful for grey literature and archival material for which manual tagging was not justified.
The advent of structured papers that are increasingly held in literature databases blurs further the distinction between the scientific paper and entries in biological databases.
The convergence between databases and the literature means that database annotators and curators will increasingly perform the functions of journal editors and reviewers, while publishers will develop sophisticated database platforms and tools.
www.nature.com /nature/debates/e-access/Articles/opinion2.html   (2743 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Like “Hypertext,” it incorporates multiple components of the electronic environment but with one difference: The focus seems to be on unique techniques requiring a high level of reader participation/intervention not necessarily found elsewhere in other types of electronic literature.
Try as scholars may to “pin the proverbial butterfly” when talking about electronic literature, the speed at which technology is changing and developing leaves the potential of this kind of work open-ended and, so, hard to predict.
Endnotes Grigar  PAGE 15  Electronic literature is defined by The Electronic Literature Organization as “new forms of literature which utilize the capabilities of technology to do things that cannot be done in print.
www.brautigan.net /dene/5273/lecture_elit.doc   (3253 words)

  
 Governors State University Library: Resources in Literature
A Literary Index: Making Sense of Literature on the Internet A Literary Index provides both an overview and a review of the more significant collections of Internet literary resources of interest to scholars, students, and lovers of literature.
Voice of the Shuttle: English Literature Page Online literary resources organized by period and genre, as well as creative writing, theory, cultural studies, text analysis, and bibliographic and writers' software.
The Gothic: Materials for Study Shows the derivation of the Gothic from the novel of sensibility and traces its modern interpretation in the light of Freudianism, feminism, the sublime and sentimentalism.
webserve.govst.edu /library/weblit.htm   (814 words)

  
 EBooks: Free Books and Other Texts on the Internet
An electronic library of marked up and scholarly editions of books poetry at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.
A "non-profit archive of electronic texts about religion, mythology, legends and folklore, and occult and esoteric topics.
"an electronic library of publicly accessible texts which focus on the basic question of the ordering of public life, and especially on the relationship of religion to that question.
library.boisestate.edu /Reference/books.htm   (1084 words)

  
 Eighteenth-Century Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The collection includes information on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics, philosophy, and so on, from around the world, as well as the home pages of societies and people who work on eighteenth-century topics.
I've divided links into two large groups: pointers to Web sites are on the main pages, but I also have a set of pages devoted to electronic texts of eighteenth-century authors.
Everything except the electronic texts now includes a brief annotation, giving some hint about what's featured on the site, as well as some technical information (graphics-heavy pages that take a long time to load over phone lines, pages that require specific browsers, andc.).
andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/18th   (297 words)

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