ENGL
165LT :
Hypertext Fiction and Poetry
This course will consider
the differences a medium makes to a text: what difference does the machine
and machinic processing make? What new formal and generic properties can
we see within digital texts? On what basis - computational, formal, institutional,
aesthetic, practical, or otherwise - may we group together digital texts
into a literary field? After some consideration of precursors to hypertext
and the first generation of hypertext authors and critics, we will continue
to map out a brief history of the field of digital textuality, and we will
end by studying some of the most technically and intellectually compelling
works on the current web. Texts and themes that we will study throughout
include print hypertexts and artists’s books, combinatorial writing, interactive
fiction and text adventure games, linking, visual poetry, narrative, animation,
and code. Readings, online, print, and electronic, include J. Yellowlees
Douglas, Mary Kim Arnold, Espen Aarseth, Ana Castillo, Jorge Luis Borges,
Raymond Queneau, MD Coverley, John Cayley, Jim Rosenberg, Olia Lialina,
Jeff Parker, Dan Waber, Talan Memmott, and others.
- Satisfies GE Requirement
G and a Writing requirement
- May be used for the
Culture
of Information specialization
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