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By Patricia Tomaszek, 27 May, 2011
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(From the Website)

 

This website was created in February of 2008 to compliment the publication of N. Katherine Hayle's book, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. The website aims to provide additional resources to students and teachers of electronic literature. The site is divided into the following sections:

  • Essays: Additional essays from various contributors. Topics expand on the ideas laid out by Hayles in Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary.
  • Biographies: Brief biographies on the authors of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1. Also includes links to the home pages of many of the authors.
  • Resources: Miscellaneous resources meant for educators wishing to incorporate electronic literature into their curriculum. Includes sample syllabi from other educators and information on length and size of the works in the ELC 1.
  • Blog: A blog from the creators of the website with information pertinent to the book and teaching electronic literature
  • Forums: A message board designed for the discussion of topics covered inElectronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary

The resource was created together with Christopher Mott and Jacob Burch.

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An anthology of downloadable texts meant to provide some foundational readings to approaching electronic literature.

"This is not a complete overview of the state of the field, or an attempt to create a “canon.” If the image here is skewed or flawed, it’s only because it’s meant to be a launching pad for an independent investigation of the genre, either as a scholar or artist. Inspired by the New Media Reader, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, this selection is a mixture of theoretical texts, creative works, manifestos, critical readings, interviews, Wikipedia articles, encyclopedia entries, lists, blog posts, and other miscellany. It only includes work that can be included in a book (or a .pdf)."

(Source: Adapted from Stefan's description)

By Scott Rettberg, 27 February, 2011
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The article, published in Norwegian in Vagant and in English as "Escaping the Prison House of Language: New Media Essays in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2" on the author's website, addresses the release of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2, and several new media essays / documentaries published in the collection.

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By Scott Rettberg, 26 February, 2011
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4/2010
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The article, published in Norwegian in Vagant and in English as "Escaping the Prison House of Language: New Media Essays in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2" on the author's website, addresses the release of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2, and several new media essays and documentaries published in the collection.

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Artikkelen, publisert på norsk i Vagant og i engelsk som "Escaping the Prison House of Language: New Media Essays in Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2" på forfatterens hjemmeside, adresserer utgivelsen av Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2, og flere nye medier essays / dokumentarer publisert i samlingen.

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"Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams: A Feed-Reading of The Capliano Review is a work of electronic literature by J. R. Carpenter, curated by Kate Armstrong, commissioned by The Capliano Review. In February 2007 The Capilano Review published an issue dedicated to new writing and new technologies guest-edited by Andrew Klobucar. Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams: A Feed-Reading of The Capliano Review is a personal, experimental and playful rereading of and response to these essays by J. R. Carpenter. In this work, Carpenter explores the formal and functional properties of RSS, using blogging, tagging and other Web 2.0 tools to mark-up and interlink essays and to insert additional meta-layers of commentary in order to play with, expose, expand upon, and subvert formal structures of writing, literature, and literary criticism. Over a four-month period Carpenter read and re-read the essays, parsing them into fragments, which she then annotated, marked-up, tagged and posted. Fed into an RSS stream, the fragments could then be re-read, reordered, and reblogged in an iterative process of distribution that opened up new readings of the essays and revealed new interrelationships between them. The result of this process-based approach is part blog, part archive – an online repository for the artifacts of re-reading and a stage for the performance of live archiving. Streams are both literally and metaphorically the central image of the work. Streams of consciousness, data, and rivers flow through the interface and through the texts. Through this process of re-reading and responding, this textual tributary feeds into a larger stream while paying tribute to the original source."

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