Study Materials
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Required Readings
(Outline numbers below are for ease of reference only; see Schedule
for order of readings)
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Required
Books and Hypertext Works
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Links
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The following books or hypertext works (CD
or diskette) are available at the UCSB Bookstore:
- Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext:
Perspectives on Ergodic Literature (Johns Hopkins UP,
1997)
- Roland Barthes,
S/Z
(Noonday, 1991)
- M.D. Coverley (Marjorie C. Luesebrink),
Califia
(2000) (for PC, or Mac with PC-emulator)
- Shelley Jackson, Patchwork
Girl (1996) (for PC or Mac)
- Michael Joyce,
afternoon,
a story (1986) (for PC or Mac)
The following required work
must be individually ordered through an online vendor (e.g., Amazon.com)
or purchased from a local store (if available). The work is a computer
"game" that cannot be purchased like other works through
the bookstore's text department:
- Riven
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Required
Course Reader Available at the Alternative Copy Shop
(Contents in Alphabetical
Order)
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- Jorge Luis Borges, "Funes the
Memorious" (1954) and "The Garden of Forking Paths"
(1941)
- Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari,
A Thousand Plateaus (1980), pp. 3-38
- J. Yellowlees Douglas, The End of
Books - Or Books Without End? pp. 89-106 (2000)
- Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism,
or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), pp. 38-45,
107-29
- Friedrich A. Kittler, Discourse
Networks, 1800/1900 (1985), pp. xii-xviii from David Wellbury's
"Foreword" and pp. 206-229 from "The Great Lalula"
- George P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0
(1997; 1st ed. 1992), pp. 2-6, 11-20, 33-38
- Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck
(1999), pp. 135-47, 154-82
- Ted Nelson, excerpt from Literary
Machines 90.1 (1990)
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Required
Online Works
(Contents in Alphabetical
Order)
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- A
Beginner's Guide to HTML (NCSA)
- Beyond
Interface: Net Art and Art on the Net
- Vannevar Bush, "As
We May Think," Atlantic Monthly (July 1945)
- Ed Falco, Self
Portrait With Father (1999)
- William Gibson, Agrippa
(A Book of the Dead (1992)
- Carolyn Guertin
- Shelley Jackson, "Stitch
Bitch: The Patchwork Girl" (1997)
- Michael Joyce and Carolyn Guyer, Lasting
Image (2000)
- Deena Larsen, Bubbles
- Olia Lialina
- Marjorie C. Luesebrink, "Califia—Historial
Notes" (2001)
- Stuart Moulthrop, Reagan's
Library
- Christy Sheffield Sanford, Light/Water
(1999)
- Barry Smylie and Alan Sondheim, Sailing
- Storyspace
program (created by Jay David Bolter, Michael Joyce
and John B. Smith; work begun in 1984) [Learn about this influential,
early hypertext authoring program by exploring the descriptions
and links on this page]
- John Updike, "Books
Unbound, Life Unraveled," orig. pub. in New York Times,
Op-Ed Week in Review Section, 18 June 2000: 15
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Supplementary
Resources
The following is just the
beginning of a compendium of additional resources. Students
in the course (and visitors from elsewhere) are encouraged
to suggest additional resources by e-mailing the instructor.
The idea is to build a limited, highly selective set of supplementary
materials.
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General Resources on Hypertext Literature
- Stuart Moulthrop, "A
Subjective Chronology of Literary Hypertext"
- Electronic
Literature Directory (the Electronic Literature Organization's
extensive database of authors, works, genres, and publishers
of electronic literature; includes links to online hypertext
works)
- Eastgate
Systems, Inc. (the influential, early publisher of
hypertext literature)
- Eastgate
Reading Room
- Carolyn Guertin and Marjorie Coverley
Luesebrink, The
Progressive Dinner Party (2000) ("tour of
the works of women who write hypertext and hypermedia
literature on the WWW"; includes links to the surveyed
works)
- Carolyn Guertin, Queen
Bees and the Hum of the Hive: An Overview of Feminist
Hypertext's Subversive Honeycombings (1998) includes
links to hypertext literature)
- Carolyn
Guyer's Web Hyperfiction Reading List (1995)
- Hypernova
Hypertext
- Janet
H. Murray's Resource Page for Hamlet on the Holodeck
- Rita Raley, Hypermarks
("an index of online fiction, poetry, installations
hypertext/ually (in)formed")
- Sarah Fordham Sharpe, Hypertext
Fiction
- Michael Shumate, Hyperizons
(extensive guide to hypertext and hyperliterature)
- Scott Stebelman, "Hypertext
and Hypermedia: A Select Bibliography"
- SocioSite
Page on Hypertext and Hypermedia
- VoS
Resources on Hypertext Research & Theory
- Transcriptions
Annotated Guide to Hypertext Literature
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Hypertext Theory, Recent Research on Hypertext
Literature
Selected Canonical Texts of Hypertext Theory:
- Vannevar Bush, "As
We May Think," Atlantic Monthly, July
1945
- Ted Nelson, Literary
Machines (1981) (online excerpts published by
Feed) | "Ted
Nelson and Xanadu" (Electronic Labyrinth)
- George P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0:
The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology
(1997) [first version of this book published 1992] For
online excerpts, see: Hypertext:
The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology
(chap. 1) &
"Hypertext: An Overview"
- Jerome McGann, "The
Rationale of Hypertext"
Selected Criticism of Hypertext Literature
- Robert Coover, "Literary
Hypertext: The Passing of the Golden Age" (2000)
(Feed)
- Jan Van Looy, Hypertext:
A Select Bibliography (1998)
- Franco Minganti, "Updating
(Electronic) Storytelling" (1997)
- Michael Shumate, "Hypertext
Fiction on the Web" (1996)
State-of-the-Art Research and News on Hypertext Literature:
- Deena Larsen and Peter J. Nürnberg,
ed., Proceedings
of the CyberMountain Colloquium (1999)
- Hypertext
Kitchen
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with substantial or interesting online content)
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Class 6: Project Workshop
For help with Web authoring, HTML, and
page design, see the following resource guides developed
by Transcriptions:
- Web-Authoring
Basics (basic outline of the process required to download,
revise, and upload web pages associated with Transcriptions
courses)
- Resources
for Web-Authoring (design and how-to advice for both
beginning and advanced Web authors; includes links to
HTML and design style guides, help with images, and examples
of good and bad design)
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Class 9: Project Workshop
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Class 14: Project Workshop
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Classes 18-19: Project Performances
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Related
Transcriptions Courses
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Guides and
FAQs
J. Guides
to Online Research
- Transcriptions
Annotated Guide to Hypertext Literature (esp. for
Eastgate publications available for one user at a time
in the Transcriptions studio)
- Online
Research Resources (library catalogues, digital
text archives, periodical indices, etc.; includes both
general-access and UCSB-only resources)
- Online
Reference Resources (dictionaries, thesauri, atlases,
encyclopedias, etc.)
- Online
Resources for Writing and Speaking (grammer and
style guides, writing tips, advice on oral presentations,
etc.)
- Evaluating
& Citing Online Resources (checklists, exercises,
examples, and annotated links; also includes a printable
form to use in tracking and evaluating online sites)
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K.
Guides to Technology in Transcriptions Courses (see Technology
overview)
- Web-Authoring
Basics (basic outline of the process required
to download, revise, and upload web pages associated
with Transcriptions courses)
- Resources
for Web-Authoring (design and how-to advice for
both beginning and advanced Web authors; includes
links to HTML and design style guides, help with images,
and examples of good and bad design)
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