Alan Liu, English 165HL (Hyperliterature) Schedule

Schedule of Readings

South Hall 2635, TR. 2-3:15; Office Hours,SH 2521, Wed. 2-3
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CLASS 1:
Apr. 3

Introduction: How to Read a Pop-Up Book

The Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Movable Books, 1811-1996 (exhibit at U. North Texas Library, 1997-98)
The Pop-Up World of Ann Montanaro (Rutgers U. Library exhibit)

Ann Montanaro, "A Concise History of Pop-up and Moveable Books"

Buy required books and hypertext works at UCSB Bookstore

Buy required reader at Alternative Copy Shop.

Purchase Riven through online vendor or other source.

CLASS 2:
Apr. 5

What is Hypertext Literature?

Ed Falco, Self Portrait With Father (1999)

Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext, chap. 1

Write

300 words in your journal on your response to Ed Falco's work

Students may obtain access stickers for the computer labs at Instructional Computing in Phelps Hall. Stickers will be available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 5th-6th in the Phelps courtyard. Bring proof of class enrollment (e.g., the syllabus or a Registrar's schedule confirmation)

CLASS 3:
Apr. 10

(continued)

Roland Barthes, S/Z (1970), pp., 221-54, 3-33

Write

300 words in your journal on your response to S/Z

CLASS 4:
Apr. 12

(continued)

Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think," Atlantic Monthly (July 1945)

Jorge Luis Borges, "Funes the Memorious" (1954) and "The Garden of Forking Paths" (1941)

Write

300 words in your journal on your response to one of the readings for this class

CLASS 5:
Apr. 17

(continued)

Ted Nelson, from Literary Machines 90.1 (1990)
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]
George P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0 (1997; 1st ed. 1992), pp. 2-6, 33-38

Carolyn Guertin, Queen Bees and the Hum of the Hive (1998)

[explore and sample]

Write

300 words in your journal on your response to one of the readings for this class

CLASS 6:
Apr. 19

Project Workshop 1

Introduction to hypertext authoring and Web-page creation. (See the Course Technology page for technical resources and assistance in Web-authoring.)

Students should be prepared to break into project teams for the hypertext-authoring assignment (see Assignments for more details).

CLASS 7:
Apr. 24

Encountering the Mechanism

William Gibson, Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) (1992)
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, pp. 11-20

A Beginner's Guide to HTML (NCSA)

Write

300 words in your journal on your response to one of the readings for this class

CLASS 8:
Apr. 26

(continued)

Sample each of the following (get a sense of how they "work"):
- Barry Smylie and Alan Sondheim, Sailing
- Deena Larsen, Bubbles
- Olia Lialina, My Boyfriend Came Back From the War (1996) and Agatha Appears (1999)
- Christy Sheffield Sanford, Light/Water (1999)
- Michael Joyce and Carolyn Guyer, Lasting Image (2000)
- Stuart Moulthrop, Reagan's Library
Beyond Interface: Net Art and Art on the Net (browse this online exhibition for experimental interfaces)

John Updike, "Books Unbound, Life Unraveled" (orig. pub. in New York Times, Op-Ed Week in Review Section, 18 June 2000: 15)

Write or draw in your journal a brief response to one of the readings for this class. Do this in any format or medium other than paper and pen/pencil or word processor.

NO CLASS:
May 1

No class this day

CLASS 9:
May 3

Project Workshop 2

Project teams should come to this class prepared with an idea for the hypertext work they want to create. They must also prepare a "business plan" for how they will proceed and who will do what task. This plan, which must be turned in to the instructor, will serve as a contract of individual team members' responsibilities. (For more details on the project assignment, see Assignments)

First paper due (see description)

Turn in a copy of journal to be reviewed by instructor.

CLASS 10:
May 8

Telling Stories I

Michael Joyce, afternoon, a story (1986)

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (1980), pp. 3-38

Write

300 words in your journal on your response to one of the readings for this class

CLASS 11:
May 10

(continued)

Michael Joyce, afternoon, a story (1986) ["finish" or reread]
J. Yellowlees Douglas, The End of Books - Or Books Without End? pp. 89-106 (2000)

Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext, pp. 76-96

Write

300 words in your journal on your response to one of the readings for this class

CLASS 12:
May 15

Telling Stories II

Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl (1996)

Shelley Jackson, "Stitch Bitch: The Patchwork Girl" (1997)

Write

300 words in your journal on your response to Patchwork Girl

CLASS 13:
May 17

Telling Stories III

Read a work of hyperliterature not on the course syllabus. The idea is to "discover" a work of either hypertext fiction or poetry (or some combination) that you would like to bring to the class's attention. Be prepared to explain why the work you are choosing is compelling or successful. For annotated guides and bibliographies of works to choose from, see the General Resources in the supplementary materials for this course.
See works "discovered" by students in the course, Spring 2001

Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext, pp. 58-75

Write

300 words in your journal on your response to the work you have "discovered"

CLASS 14:
May 22

Project Workshop 3

Project teams should come prepared to show what they have done so far as well as to report on what tasks each team member has accomplished. Important: some tangible work must be on the Web at this point. (For more details on the project assignment, see Assignments)

CLASS 15:
May 24

Telling Stories IV

M.D. Coverley (Marjorie C. Luesebrink), Califia (2000)
Carolyn Guertin, "Three-Dimensional Dementia: M.D. Coverley's Califia and the Aesthetics of Forgetting" (1999)

Marjorie C. Luesebrink, "Califia—Historial Notes" (2001)

Write

300 words in your journal on your response to Califia

CLASS 16:
May 29

(continued)

M.D. Coverley (Marjorie C. Luesebrink), Califia (2000) (finish reading)

Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck (1999), pp. 135-47, 154-82

Write

300 words in your journal on your response to one of the readings for this class

CLASS 17:
May 31

Telling Stories V: The "Built Environment" Paradigm

Rand and Robyn Miller, Riven (purchase a copy from an online vendor or other source)

Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), pp. 38-45, 107-29

Write

300 words in your journal on your response to Riven

Turn in journal to be reviewed by instructor.

Second paper due (see description)

Project teams must on this date give the instructor the URL and title of their hypertext work (even if the work isn't finished yet)

CLASS 18:
June 5

Project Performances

Presentation of student hypertext projects

Students in the class should go to the Student Materials page to preview the class projects in advance of class

CLASS 19:
June 7

(continued)

Presentation of student hypertext projects

Students in the class should go to the Student Materials page to preview the class projects in advance of class

Thanks to Marjorie Luesebrink, Rita Raley, and Stuart Moulthrop, who consulted on works to include in this course.
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