Close Reading New Media

Analyzing Electronic Literature

Symbolae, Facultatis Litterarum Lovaniensis, Series d Litteraria vol. 16

edited by
Jan VAN LOOY and Jan BAETENS
Leuven University Press, 2003

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Close Reading Electronic Literature
Jan Van Looy & Jan Baetens (K.U.Leuven)

 

I. Hypertext

Stephanie Strickland’s True North: A Migration between Media
Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois – Chicago)

Sutured Fragments: Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl in Piecework
Elisabeth Joyce (Edinboro University of Pennsylvania)

In Search of Califia
Raine Koskimaa (IT University of Copenhagen)

 

II. Internet Text

Underground Lies: Revisiting Narrative in Hyperfiction
Richard Saint-Gelais & René Audet (CRELIQ/Université Laval)

Stealing or giving? On Raymond Federman’s & Anne Burdick’s Eating Books
Jan Baetens (K.U.Leuven)

One must be Calm and Laugh: Geoff Ryman’s Web Novel 253 as a Hypertextual Contemplation on Modernity
Jan Van Looy (K.U.Leuven)

 

III. Cybertext

Requiem for a Reader? A Semiotic Approach to Reader and Text in Electronic Literature
Jack Post (University of Maastricht)

The Narrative of an Interface: Rethinking Hypertext Theory by Faceing Design Questions
Paul A. Harris (Loyola Marymount University)

Hypertextual Consciousness: Notes toward a Critical Net Practice
Mark Amerika (University of Colorado – Boulder)

 

About the Contributors

Appendix: Electronic Literature on the Web