A. Required Books Available at UCSB Bookstore

Links in this section are to descriptions on the Amazon.com site. (Policy statement on links to commercial sites.)

1. Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature (Johns Hopkins UP, 1997)
2. Roland Barthes, S/Z (Noonday, 1991)
3. George P. Landow, Hyper/Text/Theory (Johns Hopkins UP, 1994)
4. Janet H. Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck (MIT Press, 1997)

B. Required Course Reader Available at the Alternative Copy Shop

(Contents in Alphabetical Order)

1. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (1980), pp. 3-38
2. Fredric Jameson, "Postmodernism and Consumer Society" (1982)
3. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), pp. 38-45, 107-29
4. Friedrich A. Kittler, Discourse Networks, 1800/1900 (1985), pp. xii-xviii from David Wellbury's "Foreword" and pp. 206-229 from "The Great Lalula"

C. Works To Be Purchased on Diskette or CD-ROM

(Policy statement on links to commercial sites.)

1. M.D. Coverley (Marjorie C. Luesebrink), Califia (2000) (purchase from Eastgate)
2. Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl (1996) (purchase from Eastgate)
3. Michael Joyce, afternoon, a story (1986) (purchase from Eastgate)
4. Rand and Robyn Miller, Riven (purchase a copy or play one of the copies on the machines in the Transcriptions studio)

D. Required Online Works

(Contents in Alphabetical Order)

 

1. Mark Amerika, Grammatron
2. Beyond Interface: Net Art and Art on the Net
3. Ed Falco, Self Portrait With Father (1999)
4. William Gibson, Agrippa (A Book of the Dead (1992)
5. Carolyn Guertin, Queen Bees and the Hum of the Hive
6. Michael Joyce and Carolyn Guyer, Lasting Image (2000)
7. Raine Koskimaa, "Visual Structuring of Hypertext Fiction" (1997/98)
8. Deena Larsen, Bubbles
9. Olia Lialina, My Boyfriend Came Back From the War (1996)
10. Stuart Moulthrop, Reagan's Library
11. Ted Nelson on "Link Types" (excerpt from his Literary Machines, 1981)
12. Barry Smylie and Alan Sondheim, Sailing
13. Karen Steigman, "Hypertext and Spatial Consciousness" (1999)
14. John Updike, "Books Unbound, Life Unraveled," orig. pub. in New York Times, Op-Ed Week in Review Section, 18 June 2000: 15
15. William Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey" (1798)

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.

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) Eastgate Systems, Inc. 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") Carolyn Guertin, Queen Bees and the Hum of the Hive: An Overview of Feminist Hypertext's Subversive Honeycombings (1998) 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

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 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

Home Pages of Hyperliterature Authors Deena Larsen Marjorie C. Luesebrink ("M.D. Coverley") Michael Joyce Stuart Moulthrop Barry Smylie

Selected Journals and Zines Publishing Hypertext Literature ArcHive BeeHive Iowa Review Web Riding the Meridian Salt Hill

Hypertext Literature Organizations, Programs, Events Electronic Literature Organization Electronic Literature Organization Chats (at LinguaMoo: type "@go eliterature") alt.hypertext Usenet newsgroup trAce Online Writing Community

Hypertext Literature Courses (courses with substantial or interesting online content) Hypertext Kitchen: Courses (recent news and links related to curricular experiments) Janet H. Murray, Theory and Practice of Non-Linear and Interactive Narrative (MIT) Jeff Parker (Syracuse U.), Hypertext Fiction and Poetry Workshop Rita Raley (U. Minnesota),Hypertext Fiction & Theory

Class 1 Class 1: Introduction Be a Paper Engineer (Shell Centre for Mathematical Education Publications, Ltd.)

Class 2 George P. Landow, Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (chap. 1)

Class 3 Storyspace (Eastgate System's page describing Storyspace) Howard S. Becker, "A New Art Form: Hypertext Fiction" (1995) (on the contextual "art world" of hypertext; includes a description of the Storyspace authoring interface) Barry Smylie's Home Page (includes other digital picture stories)

Class 4

Class 5 Michael Joyce, "Twelve Blue"

Class 6 Shelley Jackson, "My Body A Wunderkammer"

Class 7

Class 8 M.D. Coverley, Fibonacci's Daughter Related to Fibonacci's Daughter: Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section (Ron Knott, U. Surrey, UK) | Who Was Fibonacci? | The Mathematics of the Fibonacci Series | Fibonacci Numbers and Nature José Luis Orihuela, "Interview with Marjorie Luesebrink" (2000) (Critica)

Class 9

Class 10

Class 11

Related Transcriptions Courses

Alan Liu, The Culture of Information (graduate version) Carol Pasternack, Scroll to Screen

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)

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)